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“Gazprom expects export sales to fall to $40 million in 2009.”That’s “$40 billion”, with a b,Well, real incompetence would have been for Gazprom to have sunk large sums into developing new gas fields. That way the gas glut would have been bigger, the price for what sales are made would now be lower, and Gazprom’s financial position would now be even worse than it is.Good thing Gazprom didn’t listen to constant Western complaints over the past several years that they weren’t investing enough in developing new gas fields to replace declining ones. Looks to me like Gazprom knows more about what’s good for Gazprom than Westerners do.