The head of the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday the G7 proposal to impose a price cap on Russian oil should include refined products as well. The Group of Seven rich nations are considering imposing a price cap on Russian oil in an effort to keep oil flowing and curb inflation, while still limiting revenue to Moscow for the war on Ukraine that it calls a “special military operation”. “My hope is that the proposal, which is important to minimise the effect on the economies around the world, gets buy-in from several countries,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the Sydney Energy Forum. “And if it is […]

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