> If you can’t win without lying then it’s not really winning.
I agree with this, but I don't think you've established that they're lying. In the sentence you quote we don't know whether "It sells them as much fossil natural gas in an average year as it did before" means they sell as much gas in total (your reading) or as much per capita. Given that this sentence was in the introduction of the article, where one lays out one's thesis before presenting evidence, I think you jumped the gun a bit. There are more numbers later in the article.
The only mention of volume of natural gas I read or found by searching the article is reporting on the wide range of speculative numbers on recoverable natural gas. 10-50 million cubic feet.
I agree with this, but I don't think you've established that they're lying. In the sentence you quote we don't know whether "It sells them as much fossil natural gas in an average year as it did before" means they sell as much gas in total (your reading) or as much per capita. Given that this sentence was in the introduction of the article, where one lays out one's thesis before presenting evidence, I think you jumped the gun a bit. There are more numbers later in the article.