Most Americans support Russian oil sanctions, even with soaring gas prices: polls

It’s something you don’t often see these days – bipartisan support at all levels.

But that’s what a slew of national polls in recent days indicate when it comes to banning Russian oil to punish Moscow for its murderous full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine.

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Nearly two-thirds of respondents in a CBS News/YouGuv poll taken March 8-11 said they support sanctions on Russian oil and gas, even if it means paying higher fuel prices.

And that percentage rose to 77% in an ABC News/Ipsos survey that polled Americans on March 11-12.

Following a chorus of calls from Republicans and Democrats in Congress, President Biden announced last Tuesday a ban on all imports of oil, gas and other Russian energy into the United States, targeting what the president has called “the main artery” of Moscow’s economy.

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This move came with the recognition that already high gas prices would soar even higher.

And they did. According to AAA, the national average for regular gasoline was $4.32 Monday morning.

The ABC News and CBS News polls were the latest, but not the only ones, to indicate strong support for oil sanctions against Moscow.

Seventy-one percent in a national poll from Quinnipiac University and 79% of respondents in a Wall Street Journal survey — both of which were published last week — backed the sanctions even though they drove prices still higher. higher at the pump.

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But support for oil sanctions, whatever their effect on gas prices, doesn’t mean Americans are giving Biden a boost on the current inflation punch.

Seven in 10 polled in the ABC News poll said they disapproved of the president’s handling of gas prices. And 63% of those polled by The Wall Street Journal approved of Biden’s handling of inflation.