Unreliable Neighbor Sitting on the Gas

So how would you like it if that crazy neighbor with the big shotgun also controlled your power supply? Well, Germany, France and a lot of other European countries are realizing that relying on unreliable Russia for their gas may turn out to be quite a disaster. Putin and company have turned off gas to Ukraine over a price dispute (not to mention sour grapes over the Orange Revolution a year ago) and gas pressure dropped in the pipes of other European countries. Europe will have to think long and hard about their energy policies. And a pipe circumventing Poland and other eastern neighbors may not be the solution, as long as the gas continues to originate in Russia.