{"id":474562,"date":"2022-03-09T12:46:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T07:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=474562"},"modified":"2022-03-09T12:46:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T07:16:20","slug":"ukraine-crisis-us-slaps-sanctions-on-russian-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ukraine-crisis-us-slaps-sanctions-on-russian-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine crisis: US slaps sanctions on Russian oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden announced a ban on Russian oil and other energy imports on Tuesday in retaliation against the invasion of Ukraine, underscoring strong bipartisan support for a move that he acknowledged would drive up US energy prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re banning all imports of Russian oil and gas energy,\u201d Biden told reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable in US ports and the American people will deal another powerful blow to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin\u2019s war machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices jumped on the news, with benchmark Brent crude for May climbing 5.4 per cent to $129.91 a barrel. Gas prices hit a record in the United States on Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden announced a ban on Russian oil and other energy imports on Tuesday in retaliation against the invasion of Ukraine, underscoring strong bipartisan support for a move that he acknowledged would drive up US energy prices. \u201cWe\u2019re banning all imports of Russian oil and gas energy,\u201d Biden told reporters at the White House. \u201cThat means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable in US ports and the American people will deal another powerful blow to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin\u2019s war machine.\u201d Oil prices jumped on the news, with benchmark Brent crude for May climbing 5.4 per cent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}