Natural Gas and oil are global commodities. Unless the gas is being stored explicitly for domestic use, like the strategic stockpile was, the pipeline would just speed up delivery to the international market.

The role of any actor in a market is to maximize their profits to the extent that the market allows. This market analysis software is not even a little surprising, large institutional landlords have been doing this for years. The software is not the problem, the market itself is for allowing one of the most essential human needs to be treated like a faceless profit making commodity.