Harebrained Price Cap on Russian Oil

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : On December 2, the Biden regime's Treasury Department issued the following statement:EU, G7 and Australian regimes agreed to adopt "a price cap of $60/barrel on seaborne crude oil of Russian Federation origin."
26% : In response to artificially capping the price of oil by the empire of lies and its go-along vassals, Russia's US embassy said the following:"We took notice of the (Biden regime's) arrogant claims regarding the agreement with its partners on the notorious 'price cap' on Russian oil.""Strategists in Washington, hiding behind noble slogans of ensuring energy security for developing countries, maintain a wall of silence on the fact that current imbalances on the energy markets stem from their ill-conceived actions.""First of all, the introduction of sanctions against Russia and bans on energy imports from our country.""With a tenacity worthy of a better application, the collective West is trying to resolve the issues it impetuously created.""We are witnessing a (doomed to fail) reshaping of basic principles of free markets.""Steps like these will inevitably result in increasing uncertainty and higher costs for (purchasers) of raw materials.""From now on, no country is immune to the introduction of all sorts of 'caps' on its exports, (imposed) for political reasons.""Regardless of flirtations with the dangerous and illegitimate instrument, we are confident that Russian oil will continue to be in demand."

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