Oil, Russia and Czech opposition to the Lisbon Treaty

Interesting analysis in the Kuwait Times, linked here, which concludes as follows: The Czech Republic is therefore using the alleged oil cutoff to illustrate just how vulnerable Europe's front lines are to Russian machinations. Because Czech oil refineries process such a large quantity of oil for Germany and the rest of Western Europe, Prague is hoping its strategy will succeed by hinting at just what kind of serious damage the Russians can do by cutting off oil to the Czech Republic. Prague hopes to use the cutoff to rally support behind its veto of the Lisbon Treaty, to elucidate in action what it has been trying to argue in words: that Russia is a serious threat to its region and that Central Europe cannot give up its ability to veto European policy toward the Kremlin.