Your comments seem to echo the comments when I was on the Energy Committee that we heard from the Minister of Energy for Lithuania, who suggested that just sending the signal that we were interested in exporting LNG could have a destabilizing effect around Europe, and Russia specifically, from an economic standpoint and provide real opportunities for us to move forward.
Tim Scott: “Your comments seem to echo the comments when I was on the Energy Committee that we heard from the Minister of Energy for…”
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Exporting LNG could destabilize Russia's influence in Europe.
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