(April 11, 2014 at 1:28 am)Chuck Wrote: Huh, no. You have no idea the volume of natural gas transacted. You have no idea how much it costs to transport these in gaseous or liquified state by rail. You have no idea what it takes to move natural gas safely. You have no idea hour much the Russians can gouge and still vastly undercut any natural gas you can move to Europe on rail car sized containers.
You need pipelines, dedicated LNG terminals, and highly specialized LNG ships. None of which exists in the US, or in Europe at appropriate locations.
I did some back of the envelope calculations. You need about 6 post panamax ships landing each day in Europe with 5000 tank containers on each ship.
I'll concede....it would take a while to build the amount of iso tanks, ships, rail cars, locomotives and port facilities to completely replace the gas coming from Russia.
