re: #589 lawhawk

A pipeline that wont open for years isn’t worth a damned thing at the moment in this crisis in Ukraine. It doesn’t increase fuel supplies or reduce prices, which are two things that could reduce Russian revenues from fuels.

Going into the SPR to sell fuel on the open market might make an impact, though it could be offset simply by reducing output elsewhere (Russia or its client states could reduce supply) to keep the price per barrel up.

And this assumes that the only reason Putin is doing this is because of oil.
It isn’t.