The new administration Obama should realize that Russia can take by the throat European allies of America.Today, the newspaper The Washington Times publishes the view of William Shagharta (William F. Shughart), a senior fellow of the Independent Institute in Oakland (California) and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Missisipi.Moskva aspires to become energy superpower, finds professor.Rossiya already ranks second in the world by volume of oil production, kachaya nearly 10 million barrels a day and is the largest supplier of natural gas. Like all countries exporting energy, Russia benefited from an unusually price increases over the past decade. Increasing prices of oil a dollar gave the Russian budget of about a billion dollars of additional revenue. As a result, Russia’s gold reserves have grown from 12 billion dollars in 1999 to 470 billion late last year, and thus Russia embarked on the same level as countries such as China, India and Middle Eastern oil gosudarstva.Napraviv tanks in Georgia The Kremlin gave a signal that he intends to establish control over oil and gas reserves of former Soviet republics of the Caspian basin, threatening disruption of energy supplies to Europe. This option would give Russia leverage political influence on Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine and other Central and Eastern European countries, heavily dependent on Russian energonositeley.Vopreki terms of the contracts signed with Western oil companies, the Kremlin canceled the license ExxonMobil and Chevron to develop fields And then forced Royal Dutch Shell to sell some shares Gazprom . Then, increasing the pressure, Russia raised the first of preferential gas prices for Ukraine and Belarus – countries through which a significant portion of Russian gas exports to Zapad.Novaya Obama administration must realize that Russia can take by the throat European allies, America and play its energy card When wants: for instance, to block further expansion of NATO or ES.Veroyatnym following the progress Russia, which could be postponed until the global economy begins to gather force, will attempt skolotit global gas cartel modeled on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. About 15 gas producing countries, led by Russia and Iran agreed in 2004 to establish a executive bureau for the harmonization of interest in the global gas rynke.V conditions of excess demand for natural gas on the proposal will be enhanced initiative for a collective reduction of production and higher prices. For the United States, the best protection from volatile oil and gas prices and Russia’s blackmail will combine conservation with increased production of energy and energy effektivnosti.No long-term solutions are blocked due to the fact that Congress has stalled on energy policy, and the White House showed no Real liderstva.Hotya beneficial role to play increased production of domestic energy supply by developing proven reserves of oil and gas on the outer continental shelf, the mountain West and Alaska, the most important step on the energy front, which could make the United States, is the increased use of coal and nuclear energy. America has coal reserves for 250 years, the energy equivalent of more than oil reserves of Saudi Arabia or Rossii.V especially elected president should reconsider his position on coal. Clean Coal – no oxymoron. Construction of coal-fired power plants, which will use new technologies for capturing and storing emissions of carbon dioxide deep underground and the transformation of coal into liquid transportation fuels – is reasonable mery.Bolee widespread use of coal and nuclear energy released would be considerable amounts of natural gas for household use and industry, and would be a significant step to improve the security of the United States to blackmail by both OPEC and Russia.
