[RayChuang88]

One thing though: Russia knows that natural gas may make more money down the road than crude oil. China's need to phase out their highly-polluting coal-fired power plants and Japan's need to replace the power generation lost when their nuclear reactors shut down means Russia will have at least two major customers for their natural gas, especially now that new natural gas pipelines distributing natural to China or to a new natural gas terminal at Vladivostok or Nakhodka for sea shipment of natural gas to Japan could be constructed in the next ten years.

[berdie]

“China needs to phase out their highly polluting...”

Why? I don’t think China gives a rip about the environment.