My wife commented this morning that every time a person talks or quotes the "rising price of a gallon of gasoline," you should have to show the record profits of the oil companies whining about cost try a comparison to profit too.
The largest fuel Companies Shell Reports Record $9 Billion Quarterly Profit 2022 1st quarter As Oil And Gas Prices Surged

ExxonMobil DOUBLES its profits and intends to triple its buybacks while Chevron more than TRIPLES its profits, raking in it highest returns since 2012

Said it before ... sayin' it again ... Big oil is ripping off consumers and profiteering off of the Ukrainian war.
You just don't start to drill and out of the ground pops oil. Many oil drilling companies in 2020 folded due to the pandemic when oil was a $40 a barrel

Profits are up compared to last year, when we were still in a lock down?

Who would have thought such a thing was possible?

There is only uninformed opinion in the above. Best to trust others with some real knowledge of facts. Pushing old Canadian planes to Ukraine wouldn't be viable. The logistical support for training , maintenance spares, support equipment, weopns, fuel etc would take years. Military aircraft are not rent-a-cars. Calling in favors from the countries mentioned is a non starter. 30 Million soldiers is a made up number. I.E. USA has only 1.3 Million active duty and the majority are not soldiers.

And Putin's response to the first planeload is unknown.

No matter how much faith we have in our leadership, it is certain they have better knowledge than any of us.

If our President would just OPEN OUR OWN pipeline, we wouldn't have these problems!!!!!

Getting Oil to China
 

Logistically, there is no good way for China to get oil from Russia. There is only one small pipeline in Siberia. The rest of the pipelines go west so China would have to sail the oil through European waters. The US is not worried about China getting much Russian oil.

Bingo. The bumbling bear has nuclear teeth.

This is vintage Russian, by the way, repeated throughout history. They've never been all that efficient militarily. It goes back to Peter the Great and probably even earlier, but examples from the lifetimes of some of us, there are some good examples. Russia, in the Winter War (1939) invaded Finland with every hope that they'd subdue that relative tiny country in a matter of weeks. Didn't happen. The Finns under Mannerheim kicked some major-league Russian butt. A saying among the Finns exemplified that: "Their army is so big, and our country so small--where will we find room to bury them all?" It was only through sheer numbers and a total disregard for the lives of their own soldiers, that in the end Russia (The Soviet Union, then), won. But even their victory did little to save their reputation.

Same thing in WW II. The German armies in operation Barbarossa rolled through the Soviets with little resistance, killing and capturing hundreds of thousands (in the end, millions). It didn't help much that Stalin had purged his military of most of the officers worth their salt. In the end, the Germans were stopped, but only because of the Russians' three best generals (General Mud, General Frost, and General Distance) intervened in the nick of time, and the bloody process was reversed, with the Russians slowly pushing the Germans back into the heart of Germany. But even here their disregard for life--even the lives of their own--was apparent. The Russians lost over 80,000 dead in ONE battle: the Battle for Berlin; a battle whose outcome was inevitable in any case. That number of dead lost by the Soviets in one battle, incidentally, is nearly TWICE the number of dead that America lost in the entire Vietnam war.

The very ineptitude the Russian military has demonstrated so far, in my opinion, not only makes Russian use of nukes likely, but inevitable. And the aid being poured into Ukraine only adds more fuel to that particular (near future) conflagration. They will use whatever it takes, without regard for lives lost, even if those lives are their own.

Putin cannot afford to lose this war.

Why would we take either side?

If the nukes start flying, we don't have to worry about oil ....

Oil companies don’t control price of oil they sell it on open market, stock market does. So blame stock traders.

Wait till Reddy kilowatt goes on stock exchange. See where price I’d electricity goes.

Your wife is Smart! Great point .. The News stations should report Oil profits

China invading Russia would threaten our European Friends

Which pipeline? People keep this political dog whistle, and never say which. If it is Keystone that is a NOT a problem,, since the Keystone was NOT closed. The extension was stopped, but it was NOT in use, it was NOT delivering oil, and would not have for another year at least, and that is NOT contributing to our oil supply issues. That is BS from the media, and you are falling for it.

"Using the oil and gas industry’s own track record, CAP estimated how long it would take for companies to start production on all of these idle acres, if they so desired. Over the past five years, the industry has started production on an average of 106,980 acres each fiscal year. At this rate, the current stockpile of idle acres can see the industry through fiscal year 2030 without requiring a single new lease. "

Here is a report of WHY it is not the current administrations fault, and it is NOT favorable to the current administration, it just shows the lying industry for what it is.

Oil and Gas Companies Are Lying About How Much Oil They Control on U.S. Public Lands - Center for American Progress

Okay, so what exactly is your suggestion? You have said what we are doing is wrong, that is trying to save lives and help an Allie. What do you suggest would work better?

What would work better?

Nothing. Nothing would work better.

Our biggest problem as a nation is that we tend to see the affairs of other nations through the tinted lens of our own idealism and ignore history in the process. Our idealism (in part, anyway) motivates us to be the world's policeman but that rarely works out well and we've gotten a whole lot of bloody noses in the process. I think my tax dollar can be spent in a whole lot of better ways than pouring fuel on the various fires in the world.

Russia vs. Ukraine is a couple of things. First, it is a family squabble. Russia and Ukraine share a religion, a culture, and a way of life. I've known several Ukrainians in my time and have noticed that when they talk about themselves they refer to their nationality as "Russian--UKRAINIAN Russian". But the key word is Russian. Russia and Ukraine have been part of the same country off and on throughout history. The leaders of Russia have been titled "Tsar and autocrat of ALL the Russias", and one of those Russias is most definitely Ukraine. They've been part of the same country during most of the 20th Century.

Second, Ukraine, aside from Belarus, is Russia's last buffer against Europe, and before this conflict there was a LOT of talk about how Ukraine might become a member of NATO. There are a lot of Russians who remember WW II. We might think that an invasion by Western European powers is a ludicrous idea but most assuredly Russia does not. Most of the former iron curtain countries, which formed a virtually impregnable buffer after WW II, are now either neutral, cozying up to the west or are themselves members of NATO. And Ukraine happens to have a nice wide flat plain which could (in the past, has) serve beautifully as a highway to Russia itself.

We have no dog in this fight, and personally I don't much care how many Russians and Ukrainians kill each other. We have no treaty obligation to Ukraine. There is no vital American interest (in my opinion the ONLY reason we should ever interfere in another country's affairs) at stake. We stand to gain nothing, and to lose a lot.

Do nothing.

So, you are defending Russia's position?