Posted on 03/20/2014 7:18:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“European leaders will seek ways to cut their multi-billion-dollar dependence on Russian gas”
Hey, I’ve got an idea! How about building some more windmills and solar panels! That should do the trick, right?
Dunning-Kruger Effect (summarized): "Stupid people are too stupid to realize they're stupid".
("The DunningKruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude.")
Be nice to Israel and get it from them?
Power plants using natural gas fired combustion turbines take about two years to complete from ground breaking. That can be more than 200 megawatts in one pop.
If we end up supplying the Euros with gas, they better be forced to pay a very pretty penny for it.
We do have natural gas to spare. Lots of it. The shale play drilling is the cause of our rapidly approaching energy independence. The oil produced from the gas wells is reducing our need for imported oil. Unfortunately the low price of natural gas in the US caused by the massive over supply is making it less feasible to continue drilling. Drillers are concentrating on areas with wet gas to get the propane, butane, ethane and pentanes that accompany the methane for another revenue stream.
The solution is to build LNG facilities and start dumping that surplus gas in Europe thereby beggaring Russia. Putin will then be known as .... kaputin.
How about triple? Is that profitable enough for you? Europe is paying three times as much for natural gas as we are. I think we might be able to eke out a few billion dollars of profit.
Aww, poor them.
If I am not mistaken, two LNG terminals have, at long last, been permitted and are under construction.
I know of one on the West coast that will be shipping gas to Japan. Where’s the other? The biggie will be Cove Point in MD. The underground piping and the pipelines are already in place. That’s the one that will put Putin in Depends for the rest of his life.
Green is OFF, red is ON?
This is nutty. They have plenty of coal, yet refuse to use it, even in the face of a military threat from Russia.
perezagruzka, peregruzka. What difference does it make?
The German Chancellor is trying to fill the vacancy created by the Liberal Messiah’s wussyness.
Excellent point.
...”one that will put Putin in Depends for the rest of his life”....
Putin’s already been three steps ahead of all these sanctions no matter how far they go...Made a deal with China who will buy if the prices change or Ukraine shuts his pipelines down...also while all eyes were on Ukraine, Putin made an oil deal in S. America and another in Africa.
Remember, Putin himself makes all the oil deal decisions so he’s ahead of this game currently.
The Oligarchs moved their money long ago to other nations favorable to Putin....so the EU might be biting their nose off if they go too far...he’ll just cut them off entire.
Here you go:
But most, if not virtually all of France’s power is nuke.
I know. We flame so much NG from Bakken that you can see the light from outer space. I was being facetious.
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