Author Russian Presidential Press and Information Office
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chief of Staff Anthony Pugliese has accused Democrat states of undermining National Security, by scoring political points for deliberately blocking desperately needed Trump fossil fuel energy infrastructure projects.
The Democrat scorched earth strategy of obstructing vital infrastructure is forcing at least one gas company import liquid natural gas supplies from Russia, to keep US homes warm in winter.
Exclusive – Senior Energy Official: Local Dem-Controlled Gov’ts Block Infrastructure Projects to Resist Trump
Sean Moran
11 Jul 2018Democratic-controlled state governments are blocking federal energy infrastructure projects supported by the Trump Administration “for the sole reason of politics,” Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chief of Staff Anthony Pugliese told Breitbart News Sunday.
During Trump’s presidency, though, “some parts of the country that are controlled by members of the Democratic party and others … are determined to ensure that no infrastructure goes through their state and are determined to say no just because the Trump Administration is supporting it … for the sole reason of politics,” Pugliese told Breitbart News Sunday host Amanda House.
“They are putting politics above the best interests of not only the consumers in their state but also national security.”
To illustrate his point, Pugliese explained the consequences of playing party politics: “My favorite example of this is during this last cold snap…. the New England Independent System Operator had to import LNG [Liquified Natural Gas] from Russia because we didn’t have infrastructure going through places like New York that would have provided American energy to support a reliable and resilient grid.”
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What explanation will Democrats offer, if next year or the year after there is a major flareup of tensions between the US and Russia, say over renewed military action in Europe, and Putin retaliates by shutting off the supply of heating gas to large numbers of US homes? I wonder how much Russia values this stranglehold over the wellbeing of millions of Americans?
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To be fair, our beloved guv has denied pipelines since before Trump; dimocrats have been playing this game for years
Why do the liberals believe with every fiber of their body and sole that Russia has interfered with the past US election yet completely ignore and dismiss any notion or suggestion that the Russians did likewise with the green movement pushing renewables, the AGW Global warming, climate change and reduction of CO2 supporting protests against nuclear power? Al of which has doubled the cost of electrical power the highest expense in most heavy manufacturing, which has essentially disappeared from the USA.
I’m just looking at that final paragraph and it’s attempted scare tactic – what if Russia denies Americans gas because of tensions between the nations during a cold snap?
To that I would have to simply say why do you say that? Did Russia deny gas to Britain and Europe over the war tensions that have been stirred up? Did Russia deny gas to Ukraine over the issues stirred up by the coup in Kiev? I have to come to the conclusion that they would see us no differently.
I am not saying they are “humanitarian” and do it “for the good of mankind,” because I don’t know if that is the case, but they could have cut those supplies off and let everyone “over there” freeze their butts. I will say that they are too good at doing business to let emotions and emotional issues interfere with profit that does their country good.
Our country and government, on the other hand, can’t be that smart. We will gladly shoot ourselves in the gluts to make a stupid point about something that has no significance to us.
It is not we but they. Politicians aren’t human
What’s amazing to me is how a political party that is unfailingly set against the best interests of the country it supposedly represents can have any following or support at all.
Masters of hypocrisy, the far left in the US acuse Trump of conspiring with Putin, when in fact it is they who seem to share Putin’s desire for a new socialist rebirth (after so many self-inflicted deaths) and who act to buttress Putin’s leadership by ensuring American dependence on Russian energy. Trump has done everything he can to make the US independent of unethical and autocratic leaders of OPEC nations – not apparently so keen on helping Putin it would seem.