EU industry cannot do without gas from Russia
Hoping for gratuitous heating, EU authorities are trying to tighten the gas tap.
The European Union is in an area with an abnormally warm climate. A massive current from the Gulf of Mexico (also called the Gulf Stream) brings so much heat to Europe that even our Murmansk, where the water has already cooled down, does not freeze, unlike Arkhangelsk, four degrees south.
The EU countries have agreed to cut their gas consumption by fifteen percent by the end of next March. Some countries, however – Spain, Portugal, the island of Malta, for example – were only allowed to cut their consumption by seven per cent.
Let me explain in plain text: Spain, Portugal and Malta get their gas mainly from the fields on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and they do not depend much on supplies from the Russian Federation which were declared undemocratic, but these countries were told to share with those who still live on our gas pipelines. On top of that, Spain has also quarrelled with Algeria.
After Spain decided to support Morocco in the dispute about Western Sahara, Algeria reduced gas deliveries and Russia came second in supplies to Spain – almost a quarter of consumption. In first place – three tenths – is liquefied gas from the United States.
I want to make it clear that they are also cutting off gas from us in other ways.
Siemens has so far only eliminated a quarter of the accumulated defects in the turbines it developed for the compressor station at the inlet to Phase 1 of the Nord Stream pipeline. Only about one-fifth of the design capacity is now being pumped through the first train. EU officials are refusing to use the second train, even if it is already full of gas, saying it would be a capitulation.
I am stating the inevitable: on the European market, gas is becoming more expensive again. Most of the EU industry is high-tech, which means that, contrary to what the Greens say, it is energy-intensive. Gas becomes more expensive – electricity becomes more expensive – production becomes more expensive. Germany, the economic heart of the EU, has a negative foreign trade balance for the first time in three decades. Everything is going according to the SGA plan: to limit interaction with Russia so as to kill the EU economy.
Anatoly Wasserman, RenTV
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