The US should not intervene in Ukraine!

[Heywood]

Actually, Germany gets 35% of its own gas needs from Russia. Germany's only major domestic energy reserve is coal, and very low quality, high polluting coal at that. Coal can not replace natural gas even if Germany reverses all her positions on green house gas and other pollution. If Russian gas stops, German couples will not be able to cook and German grandmothers will freeze to death in their apartments. Europe had no ability to replace Russian gas with domestic production now, and European ones tic politics makes it exceedingly unlikely for it to develop any meaningful capacity in 1, 3, or 5 years.

Europe has a robust rail system and seaports. All that needs to be done to move natural gas from the US to Europe is build a bunch of these.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_container

Which will happen if Russia decides to price gouge on gas. In the states tremendous amounts of oil are being moved by rail now out of North Dakota because the Obama administration has blocked the construction of a pipeline.