The overwhelming majority of Americans support the termination of the US imports of Russian energy carriers, despite the rise in gasoline prices, reports “European True” with reference to the results of the survey Reuters / Ipsos.
The survey results indicate that President Joe Bayiden has a wide support of the voters of his party, as well as Republicans to ban the import of Russian oil and natural gas.
It is noted that about 80% of respondents in the survey said that the Americans should not buy oil or gas from Russia during the conflict, even if it leads to an increase in gasoline prices. Despite the fact that the average price of gasoline in the United States rose to the record on Tuesday – about $ 4.17 per gallon, the overall level of support remained unchanged compared to the survey last week.
“About 63% of respondents stated that paying more for fuel and gas is worth protecting another democracy. 73% of respondents – said they were ready to support the pitch of the United States and their allies from the North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO) to establish a forbidden for Flights zone over Ukraine to try to protect Ukrainians from Russian air attacks – even if it leads to a direct conflict of NATO with Russian military, “the report says.