Russia is the world’s second-largest crude oil exporter and third-largest exporter of refined petroleum products, making the prospect of gasoline imports politically and economically surprising.<\/p>\n
Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend publicly acknowledged<\/a> that Russia faces a fuel shortage, saying national gasoline reserves have fallen to 1.7 million metric tons \u2014 around 4 percent lower than a year ago.<\/p>\n Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has described<\/a> imports as one of the government’s key tools for stabilizing the market, while Russian lawmakers last week approved<\/a> tax changes creating subsidies to help finance gasoline purchases from abroad.<\/p>\n The supply squeeze has already prompted fuel rationing in several Russian regions and in occupied Crimea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia is the world’s second-largest crude oil exporter and third-largest exporter of refined petroleum products, making the prospect…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":903933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[5755,54728,525,56351,20154,269,135,50,270,126562,257,620,273,274,275,103],"class_list":["post-903932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-drones","tag-energy-infrastructure","tag-finance","tag-fuels","tag-imports","tag-kremlin","tag-markets","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-petroleum","tag-russia","tag-tax","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116841197325088252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903932","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=903932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}