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>>515293958
Germany is only 13% gas for electricity, granted they probably use a decent amount as chemical feedstock as well
>>515295040
You are incapable of understanding that Russias only economic chip is its gas station status and what they are doing is saying “we will sell it to china for peanuts instead!” There are other gas stations, they don’t cost much more, and one of my cars is electric anyway. Energy export to the EU is their only profitable business, if they want to kill it who cares, for the EU they are (and largely have been) easily replaced.
>>515298363
The EU hasn’t been competitive on cost since before I was born, we compete based on quality, access to markets that actually matter, and consistency. We leave the race to the bottom to the global south.

Honestly, I think that the most likely outcome is Putin dies, the new government quickly denounces the old government as traitors and counter revolutionaries as is tradition, and they go back to exporting to the EU, this time with harsher conditions and lower (and decreasing as the switch to renewables progresses) volumes. Likely one of the conditions will be that part of the profits go towards the reconstruction of Ukraine.