Thanks to big oil keeping countries from investing billions into their own efforts to access oil they now have to buy from Russia. Many Countries haves look to deep sea drilling overseas an to have access to key technology for drilling. They instead thanks to big oil ties to Russia got oil cheaper an made them dependent.
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TOKYO—The U.S. has rallied its European allies behind a
$60-a-barrel cap on purchases of Russian crude oil, but one of Washington’s closest allies in Asia is now buying oil at prices above the cap.
Japan got the U.S. to agree to the exception, saying it needed it to ensure
access to Russian energy. The concession shows Japan’s reliance on Russia for fossil fuels, which analysts said contributed to a hesitancy in Tokyo to back Ukraine more fully in its
war with Russia."