SHERMAN, Texas (KTEN) — After the Biden administration announced its decision to ban imports of Russian oil on Tuesday, we're hearing a mix of responses from your neighbors in Texoma.

"This should have stopped at the beginning, before the American people knew about this," said Oklahoma Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-District 2). "Biden knew about it; should have been the right thing to do, and we had been encouraging him to do it, but when the public started making an outcry about it, I guess now they're finally making a political decision and doing what's right."

Still, Americans are reeling from the consequences of breathtaking inflation at the gas pump.

"It is just killing our economy when you look at what that does to the trucking industry," said Oklahoma state Rep. J.J. Humphrey (R-District 19). "When it hurts the trucking industry, it's going to hit us all in the pocketbook."

We talked with Douglass Distributing CEO Brad Douglass about the impact at the pump. His company delivers fuel to gas stations across the region.

"Our prices change at the rack at 7 o'clock," he said. "Those prices will be in effect in a couple hours, and unfortunately it's not something we can negotiate with the oil companies."

Companies like Douglass Distributing, which get their petroleum products from Oklahoma and Texas, are seeing what a difference rising fuel gas prices have on the demand for other goods.

"It comes at a vulnerable time in our economy, because we are facing inflation, and this is going to accelerate the rate of inflation," Douglass said. "We're selling less in our stores because people don't have as much in their wallet. It's going into the tank, not with the consumer goods."

For now, prices of fuel and products are likely to continue increasing as international sanctions constrain the supply of Russian oil, which accounted for about 8 percent of U.S. imports in 2021.

Administration officials said Tuesday that American oil companies have thousands of active drilling permits that have gone unused, so there's no reason they cannot ramp up domestic production to help address any shortfall.

Rep. Mullin said the U.S. was once energy independent, and it can be again.