Kommentar: Deutschland macht sich mit den leeren Gasspeichern erpressbar
Es ist erst vier Jahre her, dass Russland seine Gaslieferungen stoppte. Selbst wenn der Winter glimpflich verläuft, nimmt die Bundesregierung ein großes Risiko einfach in Kauf.
Germany is repeatedly proving its naivety by becoming dependent on the goodwill of a powerful and politically dubious gas supplier. Just four years have passed since Russia halted its gas deliveries through the Nord Stream pipeline, a scenario most people never thought possible. The consequences of this massive reliance on gas from Russia are still being felt in the German economy today. One might assume that this dependency would be a thing of the past, but it seems that Germany has forgotten this lesson.
Currently, the EU relies on two thirds of its liquefied natural gas supply from the United States, an amount so vast that no other countries could replace it if supplies were to cease. With Qatar, which previously provided a quarter of global liquefied natural gas, absent due to the Iran War, Germany finds itself in a precarious situation. This is a problem in itself, but a significant oversight by the German government has added to the issue.
The German government has accepted historically low fill levels in the country's natural gas storage facilities. As winter approaches, Germany will have little buffer to react to sudden gas shortages.
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