Energy

Remember when we were isolating Venezuela and its strongman, Nicolás Maduro? If it feels like only yesterday, that’s because it basically was.

The price of oil skyrocketed on Sunday as Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is considering an embargo on Russian oil after Russia invaded Ukraine late last month.

The Chinese regime continues to mandate its COVID-zero policy that quarantines all potential infections and locks down cities.

Averages of over $5 a gallon.

The price of gasoline has reached record highs in California. The state become in American history to charge averages of over $5 a gallon for the essential fuel with Los Angeles and San Francisco eclipsing that mark earlier this week.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk issued a tweet on Friday declaring that oil and gas output should be ramped up, even though he acknowledged that such a move would have a negative impact on Tesla, which sells electric vehicles.

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to give an answer as to whether the U.S. would ban Russian oil in the daily press briefing Thursday.

Hungary’s prime minister said on Friday that he doesn’t believe Western countries can depend on NATO for national security.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s assertion that Russia had shelled a nuclear plant and caused a radiation leak that could affect a large number of countries was deemed false and fact-checked by the White House.