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Given that Germany has long been comitted to become more dependend on Russian Gas (in order to keep the Energiewende from collapsing) one can question the sinc

Given that Germany has long been comitted to become more dependend on Russian Gas (in order to keep the Energiewende from collapsing) one can question the sincerity of this, as Germany clearly doesn't aticipate to do anything about it. Might this all be just some voter-priming? You know, just in case the results of the upcoming Bundestag election fail to deliver confidence to the electorate about their new government's authority for full-sweeping intrusive laws. Which are of course fully needed in order to prevent "Russian Disinformation"…

sebwi 5y ago
The chosen dependency on Russian gas has less to do with the Energiewende than with geopolitics. There has actually been a reduction in Russian gas supplies since the end of the Cold War. Germany is dependent on gas imports from Russia but less so than many other East European countries. Not to say that there aren't worrying signals, though. Russia has delivered far less gas to Germany this year, while depleting the gas stocked in their gas storage facilities in Germany.
- woodpanel 5y ago
  No. Russia has steadily been increasing its gas supplies to Germany, it's just that Germany b/c of the Energiewende (a.k.a. "the world's d*st energy policy" [1]) has been increasing its gas demand even more. Germany is gobbling up the largest share of the world's exported gas market (~>10%) [2]. > "Russia has delivered far less gas to Germany this year" Russia's share of Germany's gas imports just increased again to more than 55% this year [3] – and this is pre NordStream 2. [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-dumbest-energy-policy-11548807424 https://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-dumbest-energy-policy-11... [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdgas/Tabellen_und_Grafiken#Import_nach_L%C3%A4ndern https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdgas/Tabellen_und_Grafiken#I... [3] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/151871/umfrage/erdgasbezug-deutschlands-aus-verschiedenen-laendern/\ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/151871/umfrag...*

sebwi 5y ago

The chosen dependency on Russian gas has less to do with the Energiewende than with geopolitics. There has actually been a reduction in Russian gas supplies since the end of the Cold War. Germany is dependent on gas imports from Russia but less so than many other East European countries. Not to say that there aren't worrying signals, though. Russia has delivered far less gas to Germany this year, while depleting the gas stocked in their gas storage facilities in Germany.

woodpanel 5y ago
No. Russia has steadily been increasing its gas supplies to Germany, it's just that Germany b/c of the Energiewende (a.k.a. "the world's d*st energy policy" [1]) has been increasing its gas demand even more. Germany is gobbling up the largest share of the world's exported gas market (~>10%) [2]. > "Russia has delivered far less gas to Germany this year" Russia's share of Germany's gas imports just increased again to more than 55% this year [3] – and this is pre NordStream 2. [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-dumbest-energy-policy-11548807424 https://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-dumbest-energy-policy-11... [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdgas/Tabellen_und_Grafiken#Import_nach_L%C3%A4ndern https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdgas/Tabellen_und_Grafiken#I... [3] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/151871/umfrage/erdgasbezug-deutschlands-aus-verschiedenen-laendern/\ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/151871/umfrag...*