And recently Turkey has sounded keener, with American backing, for gas as well as oil pipelines to run from the Caspian across Georgia and into Turkey, to by-pass the prickly Russians.
As I recently reported, AOL seems to be easing up on the gas somewhat with Patch, backing away from earlier promises that the network will include more than 1, 000 towns by the end of 2011.
Sempra can make good money with less risk by backing up a market position on the price of gas with physical supplies of gas coming in through Baja or Cameron.
She also confirmed that she was keen for the EU to move from a 20% to a 30% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, but admitted many countries around the world were not backing specific targets.