[bestintxas]

Technology in the O&G industry frightens the world.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Vigilanteman]

Logical move for Putin considering just about all of Russia’s foreign earnings come from oil and gas. He doesn’t want his gravy train grinding to a halt.

[Vaquero]

Yes how can he sell us his petroleum products when we are producing our own.

[ansel12]

The KGB has always supported the International left, and environmentalists and antis.

During the 1980s and Reagan, the environmental movements were one of their biggest tools against us in NATO.

[El Cid]

Same as the Saudis. The Saudis use their influence in our Government to put up obstacles in the efforts to expand America's Gas and Oil industries (e.g., Fracking, drilling, etc).

[trebb]

Hard to make a profit when others produce oil too - he’s not turning Green so much as he’s proving that the tyrants of the world are all Dems at heart.

[samtheman]

Translation: We don’t want the competition.

[YankeeReb]

Reminds me of when the USSR was funding the anti nuke protests in the Reagan era.
Oh wait, wasn't Vlad a KGB colonel back then?

[cicero2k]

Once again, our innovation rocks the world.

As long as we our allowed to innovate, we will remain the lone superpower if we manage properly.

What that is, is a work in progress. Example: leaving dictators in power may be preferable to the feel good “peoples” revolution, if the result is Islamic extremism.

[arthurus]

Putin fears fracking in other countries because it keeps the price of oil below profitability for Russian oil.

[ExCTCitizen]

Ok Putin, we will stop fracking. We don’t want you to be upset.

[T-Bird45]

Putin a greenie about exploration in Russia??? Laughable...do an image search on Russian oil fields and look how badly they’re despoiled in multiple ways.