{"id":88982,"date":"2025-07-24T15:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88982\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:43:18","slug":"trumps-renewables-crackdown-hurts-us-national-security-wally-adeyemo-official-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88982\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s renewables crackdown hurts US national security, Wally Adeyemo official warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia\u2019s recent battlefield gains<\/a> and escalating air attacks on Kyiv are proof that existing sanctions on its energy sector aren\u2019t working well enough to undermine the Kremlin\u2019s war machine. Moscow earns about half as much from fossil fuel exports<\/a> as it did before the full-scale invasion, but has found eager customers in India and China for discounted crude and has partially made up its export deficit by borrowing from other sectors of its economy; it\u2019s clear that President Vladimir Putin is willing to spend the country\u2019s last ruble to keep the war going.<\/p>\n

Biden, Adeyemo said, was hamstrung at the beginning of the full-scale war by high oil prices \u2014 which then topped $100 per barrel, compared with about $70 today \u2014 out of fear that blocking Russian supplies from the global market would not only spike US energy prices, but counterintuitively enable Russia to earn much more per barrel and ultimately come out ahead. But the global energy market is different now than in 2022: Between record US drilling, rising OPEC quotas, and an overall plateauing of global oil demand, it\u2019s now possible to impose harsher penalties on Russia\u2019s energy sector without making the West bear the cost. The EU, at least, recognizes that, and last week adopted a lower price cap<\/a>. Trump hasn\u2019t followed suit yet, but Energy Secretary Chris Wright acknowledged this week<\/a> that today\u2019s oil market dynamics allow the US \u201cto do things that we couldn\u2019t do before.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trouble is, no matter how much the US drills, oil and gas are still global markets, and there\u2019s no way to completely insulate US consumers from the effect of sanctions on such a major producer as Russia. The secondary tariff plan proposed by Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) could easily push oil prices back above $100 per barrel, and US gasoline above $4 per gallon<\/a>, analyst Clayton Seigle of the Center for Strategic and International Studies warned this week, which would be \u201ccertainly a showstopper for President Trump as it was for Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n

The best long-term way out of this dilemma is the energy transition, Adeyemo said. The less the US relies on fossil fuels, he said, the more it can apply economic pressure on petrostates in the service of its national security objectives without damaging its economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Russia-Ukraine experience made it very clear to me that we need a more diversified energy base in the United States,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Still, Adeyemo said, no amount of sanctions can end the war. In addition to conventional diplomacy and maintaining military aid for Ukraine, he said, more work is needed by the Trump administration to crack down on Russia\u2019s \u201cshadow fleet\u201d of sanction-dodging oil tankers, and, outside the energy sector, to track and restrict China\u2019s exports of specialized electronics used by Russia in the manufacturing of drones and weapons.<\/p>\n

\u201cSanctions may contribute to them coming to the negotiating table,\u201d he said, \u201cbut it\u2019s going to take an overarching foreign policy strategy that includes diplomacy and a number of other tools in order to end this war.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s recent battlefield gains and escalating air attacks on Kyiv are proof that existing sanctions on its energy…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[746,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-88982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114908981054382002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}