China was almost doing this with Iran. I wonder how India was not demonized or tried to prevent it from doing so.
If we read the numbers, it jumped from less than 200,000 barrels at the beginning of the year to less than 800,000 dollars.
It is not enough to solve the energy problem, and I think that the final consumer is the one who decides whether this step will succeed or not, just as happened with Shell (Shell agrees to sell Russian retail business to Lukoil - BBC).