{"id":1451,"date":"2007-01-10T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T23:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/10\/more-on-the-eu-and-gas\/"},"modified":"2007-01-11T09:47:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T09:47:14","slug":"more-on-the-eu-and-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/more-on-the-eu-and-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the EU and gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/russophobe.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/european-dependence-on-russian-natural.html\">La Russophobe<\/a>, new(ish) blog <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionist.com\/2007\/01\/10\/whats-eating-president-vladimir-putin\/\">Opinionist.com has more on [tag]Europe,\/tag]&#8217;s dependence on [tag]Russian gas[\/tag]<\/a>, noting that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[tag]Russia[\/tag] has an almost perfect monopoly over Europe &#8211; [tag]EU[\/tag] members and former-Soviet nations &#8211; as the sole provider of [tag]Natural Gas[\/tag].&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If that sounds alarmist, check out the handy illustration <small>(shamelessly stolen)<\/small>, from a report from the Library of Congress&#8217; Congressional Research Service, which amply illustrates why this is one of the most serious problems ever to have faced the EU:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/pics\/russiangaschart.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Opinionist also cites an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalgas.org\/overview\/resources.asp\">Energy Information Agency report<\/a> which notes that Russia has 42% of the world&#8217;s known natural gas supplies, as well as a fair number of other interesting links. Worth a gander for a perspective from across the pond &#8211; and looks like one worth adding to the blogroll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via La Russophobe, new(ish) blog Opinionist.com has more on [tag]Europe,\/tag]&#8217;s dependence on [tag]Russian gas[\/tag], noting that &#8220;[tag]Russia[\/tag] has an almost perfect monopoly over Europe &#8211; [tag]EU[\/tag] members and former-Soviet nations &#8211; as the sole provider of [tag]Natural Gas[\/tag].&#8221; If that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/more-on-the-eu-and-gas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu","category-former-ussr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}