Posted on 04/04/2014 8:49:23 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
The White House objected to Russia's increase in natural gas prices for Ukraine on Thursday and said markets should determine prices.
White House Spokesman Jay Carney spoke after Russian natural gas producer Gazprom announced it would virtually double the gas price for Ukraine to $485 per 1,000 cubic meters this month, which Ukraine said was politically motivated.
“That kind of action taken coercively against Ukraine is something we oppose,” Carney told reporters.
“We believe that markets should determine energy prices.”
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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.
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.
Obama should have told Ukrainians they need to budget better or that gas prices would necessarily skyrocket.
It’s amazing that Putin gets anything done at all from laughing at Obama’s daily little pi$$y announcements.
I read the first sentence and I have to ask: Is this satire?
Are you saying that paying farmers to use the winter's supply of home heating propane to dry late green, wet immature corn to produce ethanol to screw up the nation's gasoline supply "adversely affected our free markets in America"?
The EPA is here to HELP us. They are our FRIENDS. It's not THEIR fault that propane was $6 a gallon this winter.
In fact it was probably Bush's fault, and the fault of that Jim Thompson fella, too.
The White House: filled with hypocritical, lying evil clowns.
Here, we price it by the cubic foot or 1000 cubic feet(MCF) or million cubic feet(MMCF). I don't really keep up with the price but it has been inching up and the cold winter also pushed it up some. So lets say it is high $4s or $4.85/1000MCF. You can convert cubic meters to cubic feet but it is a lot, lot, lot, lot cheaper.
We have a glut of natural gas in the US. Nobody is drilling dry natural gas wells, only wet gas wells. Most of the new electrical generating capacity being added is natural gas and wind is a distant second while coal is a distant third.
Over the last 2 years, Obama has issued 7 natural gas exporting permits. The last one was March 24 in Oregon. And because of the Russia issue, many are calling for more and faster export permits. OTOH, the US manufacturing sector says slow down or stop the nat gas exports.
There. That's more accurate.
“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.
That’s quite a bit of praise for a former KGB agent.
How did Putin become worth $70 billion?
I believe this article answers that question:
http://www.economist.com/node/9682621
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“This is what a gas company does. Its within its rights to raise prices.”
Gazprom is controlled by Russian politicians, all of them made billionaires off of their countries natual resources. Russia *is** Gazprom. But it’s wealth is certainly not shared with the Russian people, anymore then their puppets in Ukraine shared their skimming with the poor public. How did Yanokovich’s son become worth over $15 billion?
http://m.nationalreview.com/article/372804/russia-gazprom-robert-bryce
US (privately) praises Russia's Gas Price Hike for a solution to MAKE folks move to junk their freedom of travel in favor of Mass Transit Systems.
free markets? Imagine that. I wonder if the blowhole would consider applying that approach to, oh, say, health care?
We need to modify voting in this country.
It's those OTHER jerks who elect them 'representatives' that we can't stand; so we should be able choose to NOT vote in our OWN area; to be able to vote AGAINST the OTHER states candidates.
You replied to the wrong post, see goldstategop Post 21.
Dear POTUS,
F-off.
You`re a failure as POTUS and in general and have no business sticking your nose in their business.
Sincerely,
Me
yep
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