I'm surprised Russia is sending gas to Europe at all, fuck those guys. They are sanctioning the shit out of Russia, vilifying them at every turn and arming Russian enemies. Why don't they just close the tap?
Russia is funding the war partially on the over inflated oil and come winter will have sufficient leverage to end much of Europe's support for the war.
Edit: Looks like They jumped the gun and cut the supply now, but honestly, why wait?
It makes sense either we send them our oil rations from the saudis and make our gas prices jump before primaries or russia makes germans freeze to death mid winter. Russia made the correct play.
The pipeline is fully closed down until the 3rd when routine maintenance will be done. If no problems are found they’ll start pumping at 20% again.
I don't get it. They should leave it off. Middle finger in the air...
That’s what Europe and the cucks in the US are worried about.
If they find any problem it will stay off line since they don’t trust Siemens will do the repairs properly because companies including them have ban barred from conducting business in Russia.
8 hours later and it will not reopen at all after finding a leak but only after the G7 met virtually to impose more sanctions on Russia lmao.
Sky News understands that the meeting was important in getting the two countries in lockstep over the price cap.
Mr Zahawi said G7 ministers would be discussing strategies to implement the cap in December, then putting it in place in February.
They just couldn’t shut up until February, they had to announce it today lol. It’s not even winter yet and supposedly Europe only has 75% of its natural gas stocked for winter, looks like they’ll have to dip into that winter reserve a little bit early.
https://poal.co/s/WorldNews/571414
And it’s already hitting the UK:
One such owner is Geraldine Dolan, who owns the Poppyfields cafe in Athlone, Ireland – and was charged nearly €10,000 (US$10,021) for just over two months of energy usage.
The cost of electricity to the Poppyfields cafe for 73 days from early June until the end of August came in at €9,024.70 an increase of 250 per cent in just 12 months. There doesn’t include the €812.22 in VAT, which brought her total bill to €9,836.92.
It has left Geraldine Dolan wondering if she will be able to continue running the business she has owned for the last 16 years as Ireland heads into what is certain to be a winter of rising energy prices and cost of living spikes.
In short, small businesses are getting utility bills that are 10 times what they were paying a year ago. Most are going to be forced to shutdown operations.
And Germany and Europe are fucked as well.
As the FT reports, German manufacturers are halting production in response to the surge in energy prices, a trend the government has described as “alarming”. German economy minister Robert Habeck said industry had worked hard to reduce its gas consumption in recent months, partly by switching to alternative fuels like oil, making its processes more efficient and reducing output. But he amusingly clarified, some companies had also “stopped production altogether” — a development he said was “alarming”.
What’s so amusing about people losing their jobs and businesses?
“It’s not good news,” he said, “because it can mean that the industries in question aren’t just being restructured but are experiencing a rupture — a structural rupture, one that is happening under enormous pressure.”
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