{"id":488291,"date":"2022-05-02T09:19:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T03:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=488291"},"modified":"2022-05-02T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T04:36:48","slug":"russias-weaponisation-of-oil-could-backfire-by-destroying-demand-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/russias-weaponisation-of-oil-could-backfire-by-destroying-demand-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s weaponisation of oil could backfire by destroying demand for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2006, The Economist magazine published a cover drawing of Russian president Vladimir Putin, dressed like a 1930s gangster in a dark suit and fedora hat, under the headline \u201cDon\u2019t Mess with Russia.\u201d Putin held a gasoline nozzle, gripping it like a machine gun. The target presumably was Europe, which relied heavily on Russia for oil and natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>The cover story\u2019s subheading asserted, \u201cRussia\u2019s habitual abuse of its energy muscle is bad for its citizens, its neighbourhood and the world.\u201d Today that assertion still rings true with Russia\u2019s cutoff of natural gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2006, The Economist magazine published a cover drawing of Russian president Vladimir Putin, dressed like a 1930s gangster in a dark suit and fedora hat, under the headline \u201cDon\u2019t Mess with Russia.\u201d Putin held a gasoline nozzle, gripping it like a machine gun. The target presumably was Europe, which relied heavily on Russia for oil and natural gas. The cover story\u2019s subheading asserted, \u201cRussia\u2019s habitual abuse of its energy muscle is bad for its citizens, its neighbourhood and the world.\u201d Today that assertion still rings true with Russia\u2019s cutoff of natural gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}