I disagree as your theory doesn't account for the difference between buying power of citizens in different EU countries which varies greatly. If my country (Cr

I disagree as your theory doesn't account for the difference between buying power of citizens in different EU countries which varies greatly. If my country (Croatia) is importing natural gas for cheap (and it is), and then selling it to EU countries, and then importing that same gas back to Croatia, but now with price increase in triple digits, which vast majority of it's citizens cannot afford, then I call this a scheme where government isn't working for it's citizens, it is working for someone else's. And this doesn't even account for extremely high profits some of the companies (and politicians) are making. I would understand if you sell the extra gas (and there is plenty of that too) to EU market; but keeping your citizens poor and/or without heating so a better paying western european citizen can have plenty of gas is troublesome to say the least. You may have a point that with that price difference while exporting gas the government has extra money. I'm not so sure if thats a great idea, as governments are just corrupted as hell (at least Croatian one is) and a normal citizen won't see a cent of it. One may argue that corruption and energy prices are two separate things, but I would argue that they are just two faces of the same coin and they go well hand in hand.