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Russia raises gas prices for Ukraine by 80 percent
Reuters ^ | April 3, 2014 | By Svetlana Burmistrova and Natalia Zinets

Posted on 04/03/2014 11:34:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

* White House criticises Gazprom's move

MOSCOW/KIEV, April 3 (Reuters) - Russia raised the gas price for Ukraine on Thursday for the second time this week, almost doubling it in three days and piling pressure on a neighbour on the brink of bankruptcy in the crisis over Crimea.

The increase, announced in Moscow by Russian natural gas producer Gazprom, means Ukraine will pay 80 percent more for its gas than before the initial increase on Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: energy; gas; obama; putin; russia; ukraine; viktoryanukovich; yuliatymoshenko
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Putin following Obama. Only Obama's doing it to us.
1 posted on 04/03/2014 11:34:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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Ukrainians can’t frack their own gas?


2 posted on 04/03/2014 11:35:58 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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Apparently they have no frackin gas.


3 posted on 04/03/2014 11:37:37 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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Looks like this time instead of a Berlin Airlift we’re gonna need a Ukraine GAS-LIFT!!!


4 posted on 04/03/2014 11:39:21 AM PDT by SierraWasp (Bill Clinton, America's 1st Black PresidentÂ… Obama, IS the LAST!!!)
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Can you blame the Russians. They we are stupid enough to but it for the Ukrainians. This why Obama is a Manchurian plant. He takes down the missile shield, unilaterally reduces our nukes, will prolly transfer billions of dollars to Russia, allow Putin to take Eastern Europe back. Then before leaving office after he guts our military, purges or leaders, and replaces our fighters with degenerates he lets Putin wipe us out and rids the world of the evil capitalist United States.
5 posted on 04/03/2014 11:40:21 AM PDT by TheArizona
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They we are stupid enough to but it for the Ukrainians.

How's that again?

6 posted on 04/03/2014 11:42:47 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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The latest rise will be to $485 per 1,000 cubic metres - two days after Gazprom announced a 44 percent increase in the gas price to $385.5 per 1,000 cubic metres from $268.5 due to unpaid bills. This is much more than the average price paid by consumers in the European Union.

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A neat trap. IOW, the EUnuch transnationals could buy and resell to the Ukrainian dupes for less, easing or eliminating Ukraine’s need to purchase from Russia. But they won’t.

“Too much like effort on our part” the EUnuchs will say. “Let our American janissaries fight the Skythian savages to secure our new satrapy. Do not disturb our slumber with mundane matters again.”


7 posted on 04/03/2014 11:44:13 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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DC is definitely experienced in lifting gas.


8 posted on 04/03/2014 11:46:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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Sorry,

They (Russians) KNOW we are stupid enough to BUY it (gas) for them.


9 posted on 04/03/2014 11:47:09 AM PDT by TheArizona
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This is nothing. Obama raised my health insurance by 300%.


10 posted on 04/03/2014 11:49:25 AM PDT by skeeter
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What was that old hippy bumper-snicker… “Gas, Grass or A$$… Nobody rides for free!”


11 posted on 04/03/2014 11:49:25 AM PDT by SierraWasp (Bill Clinton, America's 1st Black PresidentÂ… Obama, IS the LAST!!!)
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I wonder if the EU price is calculated to encourage addiction to Russian gas?


12 posted on 04/03/2014 11:49:57 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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Hell, the electric companies did it to us in PA by 200% last month. Vlad is a lightweight.


13 posted on 04/03/2014 11:50:47 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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That would make sense.


14 posted on 04/03/2014 11:55:06 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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Frackin Obama is getting ideas...


15 posted on 04/03/2014 12:04:19 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Meanwhile Ukraine retaliates but cutting off (or dramatically raising prices) on Crimea’s water and power?


16 posted on 04/03/2014 12:06:33 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Defeat Hagan, elect a Constutional Conservative: Dr. Greg Brannon!)
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Well.....our prancing dear leader zero doubled the price of gasoline in the US, allowed or caused electric rates to skyrocket and more than doubled my health insurance, so my caring what a bunch of tire burning lead catchers pay for their natural gas is quarter size.

If I were a tire company selling tires to them, I would more than double the price per tire.


17 posted on 04/03/2014 12:06:43 PM PDT by soycd
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Why not? Obama and the EU seem eager to lend the Ukraine money which will go to pay Russia.


18 posted on 04/03/2014 12:06:50 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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They turned things on and off to crimea...said it was a technical glitch.

Yup....those folks in Crimea are chomping at the bit to rejoin the Ukraine. s/

19 posted on 04/03/2014 12:15:24 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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“Let our American janissaries fight the Skythian savages to secure our new satrapy. Do not disturb our slumber with mundane matters again.”

The EU and the US

20 posted on 04/03/2014 12:18:22 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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