it s not if, it s how much. it s unlikely russia is going to restart it to 100% flow if they go 40% which is where they were before, germany is still at a race to fill up its natural gas why which why do we care in america? we care because this is putin playing games, playing sort of puppet master, if you will, with germany, which, by the way, hellet cole, if we re going all the way back in heim, remember that name, helmet cole, he said we should use russian gas bought not more than 25%. germany went to 25% of its that gas coming from russia coming from putin, now that gas is at rick. i snow it s a little wonky, the economists put it on their cover, if that pipeline does not come back tomorrow and there s no indication when it will, you ll see germany immediately ration gas, shut down industries, businesses maybe like this one, and force people
said that it could be a strategic position to gain leverage as we approach winter. what kind of contingency meadows are we talking about? the kind of contingency measures we re talking about are firing up coal plants. germany, italy and the netherlands have signalled they would like to do that to keep nuclear power going, or to ration gas. this is more a suggestion of the head of the iea. now, since the beginning of the war, tens of billions has been spent by europe on gas, and we have seen them cut their natural supply of gas from 40% to 20%. it is quite different where we have been wondering if your ball cut off russia supplies, considering they have spent tens of billions of dollars of our, and then needing to decrease the natural gas supply that they take, but it is looking like it may be the
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