Europe's energy dependency

Teodor Marjanovic considers the complaints from Eastern Europeans about their dependency on Russian energy to be less than productive. "The Americans could also moan about their dependency on foreign raw materials. They, too, would prefer to be independent of the Arabs or of populists like the Venezuelan Hugo Chavez. It is the irony of the modern age that the west has no oil - as opposed to what we consider to be the non-democratic part of the world. And that is really damned unfair. ... But instead of constantly seeking alternative sources of energy, it would make more sense to pressure the oil producing countries to be more trustworthy and reliable."

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