who have got very rich - while sort of ranting - and railing against the west at home but, you know, going to their. - in truth, this is russia s export. it doesn t really have much else of scale. the whole regime l runs on oil and gas. that is their lifeblood, - that is what gives them power, that is what gives them wealth. so, i wondered whether some of those people who, - you know, rail against the west at home but go on holidays- in their nice, fancy yachts and stay in their villas - in tuscany and send their kids to british boarding schools, i whether, if there had i been the energy thing, if europe had said, i do you know what? we re not buying your gas any more, whether somebody - would admit against him. it s speculation, but i think- maybe that window has passed i iow. yeah, that was an opportunity. vera, clearly, one side effect of the kind of surge in oil prices that actually means russia gets a bit more for what it does sell the 20% to china and all the rest of it bu
that build nuclear, frack and drill have to be part of the lexicon and climate change bill. just like crazies on the republican side: stable thinkers on republican side and democratic thinkers as well and we have to share with them all. two prior to covid, proved covid or barrels per day usage in america $100 million, 103 million barrels a day. now down to 202,196.2 billion barrels a day. so if it gets back up to where it was before prices could go back up so tina, the record prices we went down during covid we will find ourselves going back up. finally, this energy thing i struggle like you do, brian and the worst of action. we ask the saudis to produce more? there are things we are concerned about there and certainly positive or negative things. do we go to venezuela, the iranians? i don t know. i would rather go to venezuela because i think we can strike a
ukraine s neighbors on the west, including hungary, where i am, where they are saying, we are okay with sanctions, we are not touching the energy thing. the responses from different central and eastern european countries are different, depending on their experience and relationship with russia. the baltic states are very concerned about russian expansionism. poland is very concerned. hungary less so. how did these nato nations, these ukrainian neighbors, align themselves to be more impactful? it s important to remember that in this context, hungary s actually the outlier. hungary is the only one of ukraine s immediate neighbors where the leader of hungary has had a personal and probably corrupt relationship with russia for some years. and there is a major russian energy investment in hungary which probably involved the hungarian ruling party. and he is an outlier on many issues in the european union and also somebody who has chipped away at democratic institutions in his own country.
whether, if there had been the| energy thing, if you re - a passat, do you know what? we re not buying your gas. whether somebody would admit against him. - the speculation. but i that window has passed now. vera, clearly, one side effect of the kind of surge in oil prices that actually means russia gets a bit more for what it does sell, the 20% to china and all the rest of it. but do you get the impression, from talking to friends in russia, that the sanctions are yet hitting ordinary russians? are they yet feeling the effects of this? no, no, no, they are panicking. there is a panic en masse. in saint petersburg. i mean, average people, because prices forfood, various simple food baskets, sugar, grains, going up every day. people try to buy something in advance and it is already short on shelves at supermarkets. people are panicking. and there is a problem with the banking system as well. so i think it hurts
seemed dire enough. and there was a moment, i wondered whether if, . in those early days i when they were piling on the pressure, day by day, and it was getting bigger- and bigger, europe had said, you know what? i we re not going| to buy your gas. don t care what it costs. we ll print money. we will do whatever it you know? - i wondered, at that point, - whether there might have been a palace coup. whether some of the people around him, who have beenl around him for 15, 20 years, who have got very rich - while sort of ranting - and railing against the west at home but, you know, going to their. - in truth, this is russia s export. it doesn t really have much else of scale. the whole regime l runs on oil and gas. that is their lifeblood, - that is what gives them power, that is what gives them wealth. so, i wondered whether some of those people who, - you know, rail against the west at home but go on holidays- in their nice, fancy yachts and stay in their villas - in tuscany and send