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US Oil Imports by Country 2022
Crude oil is a liquid mixture of hydrocarbons that is used in the production of products including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and heating oils, all of which are instrumental in the daily lives of people all over the world. Crude oil is yellow to black in color and of variable density and viscosity. Crude oil is extracted from reserves and then put through a distillation process that breaks the crude oil into various components, called fractions, which are then converted into final products. In addition to the fuels listed above, heavier crude oil fractions are used to make lubricating oils such as petroleum jelly for detergents and soaps.
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The EU without Russian oil and gas | Bruegel
The EU and the West need to acknowledge and accept the fact that European liberal democracy is being defended in Ukraine – a clearer message to Putin is needed. A slow and gradual phasing out of Russian fossil fuel is neither ethically acceptable nor politically and economically smart.
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FACT SHEET: United States Bans Imports of Russian Oil, Liquefied Natural Gas, and Coal | The White House
Today, President Biden will sign an Executive Order (E.O.) to ban the import of Russian oil, liquefied natural gas, and coal to the United States – a
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Ukraine operates four nuclear power plants with 15 reactors located in Volhynia and South Ukraine.[28] The total installed nuclear power capacity is over 13 GWe, ranking 7th in the world in 2020.[29] Energoatom, a Ukrainian state enterprise, operates all four active nuclear power stations in Ukraine.[30] In 2019, nuclear power supplied over 20% of Ukraine's energy.[31]

70TWh of electricity generation was nuclear in 2020, which was over 50%.[31] This was the 3rd largest share, only France and Slovakia had a higher share. The largest nuclear power plant in Europe is in Ukraine.

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Northern Ukraine was the world's most severe nuclear accident.

Lack of coal for Ukraine's coal-fired power stations due to the War in Donbass and a shut down of one of the six reactors of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant led to rolling blackouts throughout the country in December 2014.[32][33][34][35][36]


How Russia is managing to sell the oil and gas no one wants to buy
Sweetened deals are convincing even reluctant buyers to snap up the precious resources.
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U.S. fuel oil imports from Latin America jump ahead of Russia wind-down
Record volumes of fuel oil from Latin America landed in the United States in March, customs data showed, as refiners snapped up alternatives to Russian feedstocks ahead of Washington's April 22 deadline to end U.S. imports of Russian oil.
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What are the Top 10 U.S. Imports | Importing in the United States
Ever wonder what the top 10 U.S. Imports were for the fiscal year of 2014? Check out this list of the top 10.
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Russia and the West Are Locked in a Deadly Economic Escalation
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been met with a unified Western response and an escalating set of powerful economic sanctions. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been met with a unified Western response and an escalating set of powerful economic sanctions.
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Imports The top imports of Russia are Cars ($7.75B), Vehicle Parts ($7.28B), Broadcasting Equipment ($7.15B), Packaged Medicaments ($7.06B), and Computers ($4.1B), importing mostly from China ($50.7B), Germany ($26.1B), Belarus ($12.8B), South Korea ($7.93B), and Italy ($7.71B).
Russia faces financial meltdown as sanctions slam its economy
Russia was scrambling to prevent financial meltdown Monday as its economy was slammed by a broadside of crushing Western sanctions imposed over the weekend in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
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