Let’s Talk Russian Oil

Nadin Brzezinski
3 min readMar 7, 2022
By Divulgação Petrobras / ABr — Agência Brasil [1], CC BY 3.0 br, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5621984

It’s on the radar of Congress. Stopping the very small flow of Russian oil into the American market. It is small. It will not create too much trouble for the American market.

In 2021, the US imported an average of 209,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil and 500,000 bpd of other petroleum products from Russia, according to the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) trade association.

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Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB