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India is the world's third-largest oil-consuming and importing nation. It imports 85 % of its crude oil needs.

India was home to 1.417 billion people as of last year, compared to China's 1.426 billion, per UN figures. 
While India has slashed its poverty rate over the years, its wealth gap has widened significantly over the last three decades.
Poverty and pollution are huge problems. India needs to transition off coal. In Jharia, 37 million tons of coal is estimated to have been consumed by a coal-bed fire that has been burning for longer than a century because nobody has figured out how to stop the fire. To earn a living, many local residents collect and sell coal from the Jharia coalfield. Government officials are working to promote renewable energy but in the meantime people depend on coal and fossil fuels.
Russia makes up for 25% of all oil imported by India. The crude oil export to India peaked when the EU and the US imposed a price cap on Russia's seaborne oil.

The article goes on to state that Russia accounted for just 2% of India's oil imports prior to the war with Ukraine, so their importing of Russian oil has skyrocketed. To say that India has taken advantage of cheap Russian oil would be an understatement. >

They're just selling it to the US and the US buys a lot of oil. >

Well, how else are they expected to sell the US 1M barrels a day? >

Is that the actual figure? >

It’s behind a paywall. Could you copy paste the article / the paragraph where it delves into the figure? >

Well it’s around 2m barrels per month. Read your own source. >

/wooosh >

What? I asked if that was the actual figure, you tried providing sources, I pointed out you were wrong, and now you say whoosh? >

The point of the joke was to show the ridiculous correlation between India acting as a convenient proxy for the US to subvert buying Russian oil while at the same time taking the moral high ground in the Ukrainian conflict. I provided the sources to show its well understood this is going on, not to provide a tit-for-tat inventory reconciliation of barrel distributions, which would have made the joke look more like “How else would India provide the US with 66.3K barrels a day?” Ffs man lmao >

Are you braindead? I asked if those were the actual figures. If you were trying to make a joke you could have just said so to my original comment.