And yet another reason to drill, drill, drill, and drive oil prices down. You diminish the economies of the middle east and Russia at the same time.
If we had some eggs, we could have ham and eggs, if we also had some ham.
At the moment, we have neither the national will, nor the infrastructure is a ready-to-operate mode, to really deliver a challenge to the amount of leverage the Russians have in international natural gas and petroleum marketing capabilities.
We are in line to become the greatest producers and EXPORTERS of natural gas, in the form of Liquified Natural Gas, if our fleets of cryogenic LNG tankers were already built or under construction. But this would involve also building additional natural gas pipeline capability, and there seems to be some hesitancy about proceeding.
So when McCain called Russia “a gas station masquerading as a country”, he was right.
Britain is sitting on 100 to 400 years of natural gas reserves that could be recovered via fraking. However, the stupid Brits are completely brainwashed by the eco-fascists and worship at the global warming altar. They would rather freeze in the dark than upset their new god Gaia.
Seig Gaia!!
Most of the other 22% is weapons.
Russia is industrially challenged and that is Putin’s most pressing problem.
Yeah, and it’s mostly Europe paying the bill. That gas is going to Europe. In other words, Europe is financing Europe’s problems in Ukraine. Put another way, Europe is paying for its biggest security threat. And while all this is going on Europe is closing coal plants, nuclear plants, refusing to frack their shale, and betting the farm on unproven green technologies. Morons.
Remember when we spiked their pipeline regulation software and made the trans-Siberian go boom? Good times.