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This makes them even more dependent on Russian gas for heating

• ethbr1 3y ago
  Or, you know, nuclear...
• more_corn 3y ago
  Imagine you live in a quaint little neighborhood. Everyone mostly gets along. You’ve got a nice neighborhood watch. You look out for each other. Except this one guy over the hill who is kind of a dick. Let’s call him Vlad. Everyone tolerates him because he provides heating oil at a good price. One day he kicks in his neighbor’s door, decides it’s his house now and threatens dude’s family. (“He’s my cousin so I can do anything I want, besides we speak the same language so this is my house now”) his neighbor (of course) fights back. Now they’re in a stalemate. The neighborhood comes together and sends him a stern letter. “Nobody’s going to buy your heating oil if you keep on” Vlad laughs and keeps on firing into his cousin’s house. Everyone claims to stop buying oil but somehow vlad keeps getting oil money (there’s probably someone in Chinatown not playing by the rules) Vlad promptly spends all his extra money on more guns. On the one hand you can just let Vlad mess with his cousin. On the other hand Vlad is a bully and a bully doesn’t stop with intimating one dude. Besides, he also keeps threatening the neighborhood watch. Whenever he gets drunk he rants about rolling tanks across everyone’s pansies. The fact is, Vlad will continue to be a dick and your best move is for everyone to throw rooftop solar on the roof and install a heat pump. When the global demand for oil plummets, Vlad won’t have money to keep stockpiling ammo and his relevance will fade.
• trilbyglens 3y ago
  More likely it kills thr gas industry entirely.