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Nobody demands expensive gas. Not even in a socialist dictatorship. Germany is unique in that they shut down domestic energy production in favour of importing f
by flanked-evergl 2y ago
Nobody demands expensive gas. Not even in a socialist dictatorship. Germany is unique in that they shut down domestic energy production in favour of importing from Russia, and this is after multiple warnings from the west.
- croes 2y agoGas is mainly used for heating and the industry, the shutdown of nuclear power plants had no effect on that. And it wasn’t about expensive gas but multiple suppliers. But Russia‘s offer was cheap enough to push the concerns aside. Sadly we will go back to that if the CDU or worse the AfD come to power. Partially thanks to Musk.
- flanked-evergl 2y agoIn EU in 2022 19% of electricity came from natural gas [1]. Gas, like money, is fungible — you can use gas you don't use for heating for electricity production, and electricity is also fungible and transmissible, so you can transmit that to Germany from outside Germany. [1]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=File:Figure_10_Fuels_in_total_gross_electricity_production,_2022_(%25).png https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...