US President Joe Biden’s administration said that it does not want its European allies to give up Russian oil and gas like the US and blames Russia for the increase in gasoline prices.
“We did not expect and did not ask them to take the same steps as we announced this morning,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said at a news conference on Tuesday. “They have other talents and energies different from ours.”
Psaki, Russian President Vladimir Putinin He also stated that “Americans pay more at gas stations because of their actions.”
“It’s not our sanctions, it’s Putin,” Psaki said.in It is a price increase resulting from their actions,” he said.
He explained that American citizens should put pressure on the oil companies, not the country’s government, and ask them to “increase production and lower prices for consumers in the United States.”
Earlier on Tuesday, the US President announced that he is banning oil and gas imports from Russia as part of economic measures in response to his own military operation in Ukraine.
Source: agencies
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