LNG export terminal, USA. Archive photoSIMFEROPOL, May 18.The US LNG export strategy in Europe has two main goals — removing Russia from the energy map of Europe and weakening European competitiveness due to higher energy prices and a new wave of refugees, a member of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences for System Research in Energy, Advisor to the General Director of Gazprom Export LLC, told RIA Novosti. Andrey Konoplyanik. Europe is committing an economic auto-da-fé by refusing Russian energy resources, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. Logistically, US liquefied natural gas is more profitable to go to the European market than to Asia, the expert noted. Most of the US shale gas liquefaction plants are located on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, from where there is a direct and short route to Europe. To get to the Asian market, you need to go through the Panama Canal, or bypass Latin America, which is much longer, which means more expensive, Konoplyanik said. it is necessary to remove this largest and cheapest supplier, then prices in Europe will rise and US LNG sales to the EU will be profitable. Therefore, the first task is to remove Russia from the energy map of Europe,» Konoplyanik said. The second goal in solving the first is to remove a serious economic competitor in the form of the EU from the world stage, the expert noted. «Replacing cheap Russian pipeline gas with expensive US LNG increases the cost of the energy component of European costs and directly worsens the competitiveness of European products on the world market. But there is also an indirect mechanism for weakening European competitiveness — this is the formation of EU internal problems from outside . Naibol its clearest is the problem of refugees in the EU,» Konoplyanik said. A new, already third wave of refugees to Europe will inevitably occur as a result of the impending food crisis, which will also hit primarily the countries of North Africa and the Middle East, the expert said. All these circumstances will lead to the loss of Europe's homogeneity, to additional social costs, to the deterioration of its global competitiveness, Konoplyanik concluded. sacrifice climate to reduce dependence on Russia
