SpaceX CEO Elon MuskWASHINGTON, Mar 5 American entrepreneur Elon Musk called for an immediate increase in oil production and gas, recognizing that «green» energy is not able to immediately replace Russian exports of hydrocarbons. oil, gas and their derivatives, including gasoline, are growing around the world due to events in Ukraine. Musk admitted that increasing production will negatively affect his Tesla electric vehicles. «However, sustainable energy solutions simply cannot immediately compensate for Russian oil and gas exports,» he added. In the United States, the issue of a ban on Russian oil purchases as part of sanctions for conducting a special military operation in Ukraine is now being actively discussed. The White House has so far opposed such a measure, arguing that it is fraught with a further increase in energy prices.
