Commentary: Democracies that hamper oil and gas production do their allies no favours – Mark Milke and Lennie Kaplans –

Posted by David Logan

Date: May 08, 2021

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By Mark Milke and Lennie Kaplan

Canadian Energy Centre

Anyone with even a modest understanding of history will grasp how tyrannies and autocracies interact with democracies when it comes to energy: by using oil and natural gas as a weapon. This is sometimes literal and obvious during wars — tanks and jets do not run on vegetable oil — but also during peacetime.For example, in 2009, Russia cut natural gas supplies

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