(Posted by John.)

Long ago, in a blog far far away, I used to write a lot more about energy issues. Haven’t done that a lot lately, mostly because I figure a lot of it’s already been said and I have no interest in repeating myself. (I suppose I could take requests…) But every once in a while something new pops up that piques my interest. Today, it’s Jackson Diehl’s weeks-old op-ed in the Washington Post (somehow I missed it on December 25th) ably deconstructed by Jerome a Paris here.

The short version is: A NATO response to the Russians charging market prices for their gas is probably a bad idea. The long version is below.

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