because how can you depend on russia for anything? russia does have leverage in terms of cutting off petroleum products to countries that are dependent on them. so there s also a problem here on russia side, russia itself can t go very long without selling its oil and gas. large part because it has nothing else to sell. a lot has been rain today about the fact that china or india maybe some other markets will step up and take russian energy supplies if russia stop selling it westward. but that s not practical from a purely logistics standpoint. as the associated press was out today, quote the russian pipeline network from the huge deposits in the northwestern siberia to europe don t connect with the pipelines running to china. and russia has only limited facilities to export super chilled liquefied gas by ship. so they don t have the pipelines to send anywhere but europe. and they don t have ships really to send it anywhere except into the pipelines. russia s ill-equipped to send gas t
on russia side, russia itself can t go very long without selling its oil and gas. large part because it has nothing else to sell. a lot has been rain today about the fact that china or india maybe some other markets will step up and take russian energy supplies if russia stop selling it westward. but that s not practical from a purely logistics standpoint. as the associated press was out today, quote the russian pipeline network from the huge deposits in the northwestern siberia to europe don t connect with the pipelines running to china. and russia has only limited facilities to export super chilled liquefied gas by ship. so they don t have the pipelines to send anywhere but europe. and they don t have ships really to send it anywhere except into the pipelines. russia s ill-equipped to send gas to these other countries. there s also just the most obvious point you re dealing with a much lower volume when you re moving a product by ship as opposed to putting into a pipeline. in any cas