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The nations of Greece and Bulgaria, according to an Associated Press article, are building a pipeline to transport natural gas.
It's a step in the right direction. And it's a step that we -- once again -- will say that the U.S. needs to follow.
The pipeline is a foray into reducing Europe's reliance on Russian sources of energy. Russia's disgusting and inhumane attacks on Ukraine more than aptly demonstrate the need to isolate Russia from the global economy and deny it a market for its resources.
The efforts by Europe to reduce this reliance also includes a push to renewable energy sources -- as it should. But it is not naively dependent on renewable energy and the inclusion of natural gas is an important and realistic component to the plan.
Likewise, the United States should promote new infrastructure to foster its natural gas production. Likewise, the U.S. should promote the development of renewable energy without any assumption that we can, at this time, depend on renewable energy.
And likewise, domestic natural gas production and production in friendly nations that respect human rights is an important step away from enabling cruel dictatorships like Saudi Arabia and Russia.
As Europe and as, more specifically, the suffering of Ukrainians demonstrate, steps toward greater use of our own natural gas are steps that cannot wait.