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Well no - while America has plenty of product, a surplus of natural gas, export is a different matter entirely. One, it has to be compressed and liquefied on our end, and then the same in reverse on their end. This requires special facilities that we don’t have. Not enough anyway, and they don’t either. In between, requires these absolutely humongous natural gas tankers that are not plentiful. And frankly, a sitting duck for a drone strike or missile, frankly.

Who is going to insure a huge natural gas tanker crossing the ocean during a war?

It’s all very inefficient and laborious expensive compared to what they had with with direct Russian pipelines, even if it were possible.

Thanks for the example of defeatist mentality that seems so common in our nation today. Based on your perspective that shipping is complicated, and you need all kinds of "special facilities" and it would be hard to insure ships crossing the ocean during a war, it must be a miracle from God that the people running factories in China managed to become a world power by making cheap stuff and shipping it all over the world.

Instead of just filling up tanks with LNG they had to develop an entire ecosystem of factories, trucks, cranes, containers, packaging, and management systems to be able to deliver just about everything you see in a modern American store. Computers, air conditioners, tools, toasters, and so on.

How on earth did they figure it all out? How did the get insurance for the ships? Where did those big cranes that unload the ships come from?

We're just doomed. We could never figure out how to ship some liquified natural gas to Europe. Maybe the Chinese could help us out?