Many European countries buy gas from Russia, a country that USES hydrocarbons as a weapon to bully its neighbours.

不少欧洲国家向俄罗斯购买天然气，俄罗斯用碳氢化合物作为武器威慑其邻国。

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The manipulation of gas supplies has become a weapon in this contest.

在这场争夺中，操纵燃气供应成为了一件有利武器。

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With oil, as Mr Chávez well knows for all his huffing and puffing, aiming this “weapon” is especially difficult, since oil, unlike gas, can be loaded on tankers and sold into a single world market.

对于石油，就像查韦斯先生非常明白的那样，虽然他不断地在进行恐吓和自夸，但是将这种“武器”瞄准目标是一件异常困难的事情。 因为石油不像天然气可以装载罐子里在某个单一的国际市场上出售。

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The European Union and the rest of the world cannot allow a cartel to be formed amongst leading national gas producers, as the creation of such a group would do nothing to prohibit the use of natural gas as a political weapon in the future.

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Mr Lukashenka has also sabotaged the customs union with Kazakhstan and Russia, demanding that Russia scrap its export duty on oil and oil products, which would allow Belarus to buy them at Russia's domestic prices and to re-export them at a profit. (Russia wants to keep oil out of the union for now.) Russia's response is to reach for its favourite weapon: the gas taps.

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Mr Timoney said that a tear gas canister could be a lethal weapon but it was not intended to be used that way.

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