MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Miami U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, along with other senators, introduced a bill that would prohibit the importation of Iranian and Venezuelan crude oil, petroleum, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas into the United States.
“The United States is blessed to have a plentiful supply of oil and natural gas — we should be using it,” Rubio said. “American-produced energy is cleaner and provides good jobs for American workers, yet the Biden Administration would rather appease dictatorships in Iran and Venezuela in return for bad deals and false promises. Under no circumstance should we be funneling money into the hands of dictators and narco-terrorists who are also allies of Vladimir Putin. Enough is enough — it’s time to bring energy production back home.”
“We should not be reliant on brutal dictators to provide for our country’s energy needs. It’s national security suicide,” said Dan Sullivan (R-AK). “It is insulting to working families that the Biden administration would rather enrich the despots in Iran and Venezuela than incentivize hard-working Americans to produce more energy. The President needs to quit begging these dictators for more oil and gas, and instead expand energy production here in America.”
