“This is what a gas company does. Its within its rights to raise prices. Incidentally, it costs a lot of money to extract gas, refine it and transport it to consumers. If Jay Carney does not like GazProm’s policy, nothing is keeping the West from providing Ukraine with subsidized gas.”
Once again, you are serving as a disinformation agent and propagandist for Putin’s regime. GAZPROM is a government and Putin controlled entity, so it is in reality an arm of Putin’s Russian government operating essentially as a state controlled company. As such, GAZPROM is being used as a political and economic weapon to destablize neighboring states in a prelude to invasion and conquest by Putin and Russia. Putin’s Russian regime is a signatory to a number of internaitonal agreements to refrain from using the oil and gas pipelines as a political tool in this manner and abide by normal international marjet rates. Russia in obediance to Putin’s orders have abrogated the agreements by doubling and tripling its rates for natural gas sold to former Soviet states. These prices exceed the market prices and have been used to inflate the market prices outside Russia. So, your omission of Russia’s obligations to refrain from using its natural gas and petroleum supplies as a political weapons reveals how you are using misleading statements to disseminate false propaganda.
“And you’re spot in noting we have to failed to develop our own gas resources, thanks to being held hostage to this Administration’s pro-Green and anti-development policies. We criticize the Russians for acting like a strong country. If we see them as an adversary, we should put our own house in order first.”
Anyone who serves as such a disinformation agent for Putin’s Russian regime is not one of us in loyalty.
As I pointed out in reply 26, we have glut of natural gas in the US.
We have this glut because of the nat gas shortages/price spikes in 2000-2001 and again after Hurricane Katrina(2005). These shortages/price spikes led to a boom of drilling in the shale gas formations and coupled with the new fracing technology has given us a glut.