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This is really nice, but Russia is pretty important to Europe, thus any response is limited to token actions only. Russia supplied 32.6% of oil and 38.7% of gas
by TrainedMonkey 13y ago
This is really nice, but Russia is pretty important to Europe, thus any response is limited to token actions only. Russia supplied 32.6% of oil and 38.7% of gas used by EU in 2007. I would love to see some of more recent data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_sector http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_s...
- protomyth 13y agoThis goes to 2010 http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Energy_production_and_imports http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.... [edit] this might explain part of the data as far as Canada http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2014/0204/Why-Europe-won-t-buy-Canadian-oil http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2014/0204...
- sasvari 13y agoRussia supplied 32.6% of oil and 38.7% of gas used by EU in 2007. Seeing that the Russian state is nearly exclusively financed by selling Russian natural ressources, this also poses a big risk to Russia: they can't just switch to sell their oil and gas to someone else (i.e. China, as the infrastructure to just shift the flow of oil and gas to the East is not present). Both the EU and Russia are tied together.
- Shivetya 13y agoHowever the EU can gain independence from Russia fuels easier than Russia can generate a new means to replace those funds. If they really want to put Putin in a bind they can simply revoke all travel Visas for Russians by means testing it. Bottle the rich oligarchs up in Russia and they won't tolerate it long.