United States needs to help Europe free itself from Russian energy by exporting natural gas to Europe!!

Russia obviously has its sights on expanding territory in Europe using natural gas and energy as a big hammer.  It will soon be obvious that Putin and Russia unless curtailed and weakened by sanctions together with the support of other European countries will become a much larger problem in the future if not curtailed sooner than later.  Increasing natural gas production in this country is needed to not only boost our economy but to help Europe makes us all safer against the threat of Russia if it is allowed to increase its expansion and take over smaller European countries.  The downing of civilian aircraft by Russian backed terrorist is a clear sign of what the future will bring if Russia continues to expand its borders.  So far Europe has shown no serious effort to sanction Russia because it likes trade to continue with Russia and depends on Russian energy, but if unchecked this will be the first of many incidents that will eventually lead to increase tension and possibly military action which will not be pretty.  Putin is serious and has no intention to stop expanding Russia capabilities.  Acorns eventually grow into oak trees, it is time to cut some limbs off this tree before this problem become too big to handle.  I am afraid we (United States) does not have the will and Europe depends too much on Russian energy.  Getting tough now may not be the answer but the sooner we face this threat the better.  Later may be too late.

  

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Permalink Reply by Dexter Green on July 23, 2014 at 11:13am

Russia may or may not be a threat, but exporting natural gas as a knee jerk reaction to that perceived threat is misguided.  The only ones who make out in that scenario are the gas companies.  Everyone else get's bupkis. 

Permalink Reply by george m vietze on July 23, 2014 at 11:46am

Russian may or may not be a threat?  Ask Ukraine if Russia is a threat, Russian supplied Syria with weapons asked the people who are being killed with those weapons if it mattered to them.  A Russian may or may  not have fired that missle that knocked down that CIVILIAN aircraft but without Russian weapons that plane would have landed in Denmark, not crashed in Ukraine.  The point is not an over reaction to the recent incident but recognizing the long term threat enough in the early stages to help prevent a much larger threat in the future.  It took years before the world recognized Hitler as a serious threat to the world.  It may seem safe in a nice spot in the country in the United States where what happens in Europe or elsewhere does not seem to be a threat to our lifestyle but this is a small world and a much more global world than before and I am in Erie, Pa., in the country, pretty beautiful and quiet but I would rather pay a little more for natural gas and keep it that way.

Russia looks like a huge threat to me, but to each their own, but when they come for you there may not be anyone else helping you.

Permalink Reply by Dexter Green on July 23, 2014 at 12:49pm

Russian involvement in Syria isn't something we can really condemn them for.  They chose a side.  America has done that quite a bit, and we have a track record of being terrible at it.  Half of Ukrainians want Russian intervention.  They want to be tied to Russia and not the Eurozone, which is little more than a bunch of welfare states suckling at Germany's ever-drying teat.  The MH17 incident is tragic, but also not unheard of during the fog of war.  To blame the Russian government for it is premature.  To start exporting a valuable resource that we could ourselves use to fuel a second industrial revolution is counterproductive at best.

Permalink Reply by Appalachian on July 23, 2014 at 2:45pm

Been waiting for them since the early eighties...bring it.

Permalink Reply by DONNA M SELLERS on July 24, 2014 at 10:33am

AMEN TO THAT...

Permalink Reply by Gas Boy on July 23, 2014 at 11:51am

I disagree because the liberal Europeans have created their own mess, eerr "Utopia"............

Permalink Reply by Appalachian on July 23, 2014 at 11:58am

The United States needs to help itself to some cheap energy.  Export products, not energy.  Dexter is spot on.

Permalink Reply by Dan on July 24, 2014 at 10:17am
How many fracking bans in Europe? I would like to see them try to fix their energy problems themselves a bit more. How many more solar panels and windmills can we help them build by giving them cheap NG?

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