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Pity there wasn't enough port capacity to offload LNG in sufficient quantity to replace the pipelines. Plus the even larger carbon footprint per unit, which Eu
by EdwardDiego 3y ago
Pity there wasn't enough port capacity to offload LNG in sufficient quantity to replace the pipelines.
Plus the even larger carbon footprint per unit, which European countries do care about.
- de6u99er 3y agoTrue, but those ports exist now.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoI'm not surprised. The German plan to liberalise Russia via extensive trade and energy integration with them was definitely demonstrated to be the massively wrong theory without evidence it always was. So now they've realised what they were often told along the way, it's a strategic weakness. I'd be building port capacity like crazy also. Turns out, you can't introduce democracy to a country just by buying things from them, China is a very obvious exhibit B. It's the well-deserved public execution of a strain of ludicrous liberal(as in liberal economics, not the Democrats) pie-in-the-sky faith based thinking. Best summed up by that dumb quip about "no two countries with McDonalds restaurants have ever gone to war". All hail the (apparently democracy loving) Invisible Hand! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/15/gas-blackmail-how-putins-weaponised-energy-supplies-are-hurting-europe https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/15/gas-blackmail-...