Posted on 06/21/2006 3:29:49 PM PDT by sergey1973
December 2009: After weeks of rioting in Turkmenistan, President Saparmurat Niyazov flees. Moscow accuses Washington of fomenting a coup, and Russian and Iranian troops seize control of the capital, Ashgabat, to secure the country's gas supplies.
The U.S. president, furious that U.S. protests have been ignored, mobilizes troops based in nearby Azerbaijan.
At a crisis meeting in Moscow, Gas OPEC member nations Russia, Iran, Algeria, Libya, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan agree to cut all gas supplies to Western Europe in response.
On Jan. 1, 2010, the lights go out.
However unlikely such a nightmare scenario may seem, it's precisely the sort of scenario that governments and global energy companies plan for.
It's also one that seemed a bit more likely after a speech by one of Gazprom's most vocal supporters in the State Duma, Valery Yazev, at a May 28 Berlin energy conference. Yazev, who heads the Duma's Energy, Transportation and Communications Committee, made a fiery condemnation of European moves to limit Gazprom's reach.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
I wouldn't place too much stock in this writer's fantasies.
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