Electric heating, oil heating and so on. Not sure if the grid would cope with such a load, but there are always options. Another option is just to give up with

Electric heating, oil heating and so on. Not sure if the grid would cope with such a load, but there are always options. Another option is just to give up with your kind of argument, and pay up Russia. That's looking increasingly like shooting our own foot in long term. The idea he will stop and be happy just with Ukraine is dangerously naive and ignore his own steps and statements. If this won't be a wake up call in Europe then nothing will. Ramp up military budgets (I hate the idea, but that's how you deter bullies and we have one greedy fucker right now next door), and prepare infrastructure for withdrawal of anything russian. Long term that's good for Europe and world too.