pipelines are easily REPAIRABLE but building a new one takes years
playing silly buggers with Russian gas is just giving Mr Putin a ready made excuse - he'd be intervening to save western pensioners and the poor from the cold
The importation thing now is to stabilise Ukraine and stop the Russians extending the "blood is thicker than treaties" approach elsewhere
Ask the Saudis to go full throttle on oil production and get the Yanks to export shale gas and oil - when the oil price hits $70 the Russians are buggered