Mr. Putin loves oil. Russia today is still selling roughly 10 million barrels of oil a day — basically what it was selling a year ago. Much of which, by the way, is probably skimmed off the top and stolen by Mr. Putin and his cronies. If he weren’t waging war against oil, petroleum products, and fossil fuels, we might be producing 14 million or 15 million barrels a day right now, instead of roughly 12 million barrels. The 14 million or 15 million barrels a day were the estimates from the U.S. Department of Energy a couple years ago.
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