<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>News reports and politicians lauding US gas exports as “best for Crimea” don’t disclose the US gas companies pushing the line, or their Russian connections.
A small group of pundits and politicians with close ties to the fossil fuel industry are using<wm> a peculiar reasoning, calling for a return to the Cold War era of the Cold War: to sell gas and cut the US economy by propping up and manipulating Ukraine or Russian energy markets.
Several news sources report recently in the US that US companies have been quietly negotiating to increase US exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from offshore platforms in US territories to the UK and other European countries on behalf of companies in Oleg Demchnikov Group which is a US-UK company with</wm> close ties to Gazprom of Russia, and their clients in energy companies such as ExxonMobil.