Biden Won't Ban Russian Oil to Help Prices

From Newsmax.com (Feb. 26):

The Biden administration’s latest round of sanctions purposely do not ban Russian oil in order to avoid energy cost increases, Breitbart reports, quoting remarks by Deputy Treasury Secretary Wall Adeyemo.

“Russia will still have the ability to sell their oil,” Adeyemo said Friday on MSNBC. “They’ll just make less money doing it going forward.”

Host Katy Tur of “Katy Tur Reports” then asked, “What about banning Russian oil? I know we have a price cap on it now. Have you — has the administration considered putting an outright ban on Russian oil?”

Adeyemo answered that the desire to keep energy prices low has kept the Biden administration from banning Russian oil outright, despite other sanctions against Russia in retaliation for its war against Ukraine:

“So, the reason we put a price cap on Russian oil was because we wanted to make sure that we did two things: reduce Russia’s revenues, but make sure that we don’t increase the cost of energy for the rest of the world, and we succeeded in doing that to date,” the deputy Treasury secretary said.

"Russia’s revenues from energy for the federal government [are] down 40% in 2023, and we’ve seen energy prices in the rest of the world come down. Our goal is to make that even starker for Russia, and that’s why we’re taking the actions going after their largest shipping company.” [source]

Briben could ban Russian oil (if Putin is evil as Briben claims) and lift the restrictions on American oil so they start drilling again. It's Putin that has Biden's number not Trump's.