Russia and its colleagues in the Gas Exporting Countries Forum have regularly discussed the idea in private even as they dismissed it in public.

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The U.S. has more delicate relations with some of the gas exporting countries expected to suffer from U.S. exports, including Russia, Qatar, Algeria and Indonesia.

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In any case, destructive farming practices in exporting countries sometimes do more damage to the environment than burning oil or gas.

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