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and the plan which we presented on tuesday will propose steps just us tapping new gas supplies, increasing energy efficiency, and aims to deliver independence from the region s biggest supplier of the fossil fuel well before 2030. but again, all the stuff takes time. and we should ve started long ago. but we do have an advantage now for a technological standpoint. i was thinking back to the conversations at the munich security conference years ago, at the press conference. why is europe doubling down on fossil gas? because, they know how damaging that is. they said they are committed to renewable energy. i m not only fossil gas, but dependence on russia. and during out a theory. they had a theory that if russia depended on europe for this big supply of money for sales and gas, that russia will always behave itself. certainly, what s happening now in ukraine has shattered that assumption. and we see germany really changing their thinking very
oil. there s not much to the climate. and the enrichment of people like putin. yeah, you re right about the technology and the feasibility now as compared to 50 years ago is important. in fact, we re seeing the eu propose this crash course to get off the natural gas. and the plan which we presented on tuesday will propose steps just us tapping new gas supplies, increasing energy efficiency, and aims to deliver independence from the region s biggest supplier of the fossil fuel well before 2030. but again, all the stuff takes time. and we should ve started long ago. but we do have an advantage now for a technological standpoint. i was thinking back to the conversations at the munich security conference years ago, at the press conference. why is europe doubling down on fossil gas? because, they know how damaging that is. they said they are committed to renewable energy. i m not only fossil gas, but dependence on russia. and during out a theory. they had a theory that if