two years for the gazprom was suddenly going to do maintenance work on nord stream one, the surviving gas line which is mysteriously reduced 20% of what it would normally be put germans are 50% reliant on gas from russia. their nuclear power stations are due to shut in december. they banned fracking even though they used it quite happily, but banned it under the merkel government. they ve kind of put themselves in the worst possible position. i suppose they have. ijust come back to britain all the time on this because this autumn, people are going to be faced with really horrendous price increases in their energy and even worse injanuary, another price raise. so at that stage the government is going to have to intervene in a major way. i think agnes is quite right, most people can survive perfectly well, 80% of the population will survive pretty well. at about 20% cannot and will actually seriously either be short of food or be cold and really dangerous conditions. any government, righ