[gego]

...actually there should be no shortage... It's the invisible hand of the market... it was just that those who should have stored gas for winter use sold it of because of demand and prices- and are now trying to pressure Exporters to offer additional gas for cheap to fill up their tanks again... and yes, with North Stream 2 completed, Russia could benefit from this, too...

So through gas market liberalisation it got very difficult to keep reserves against the will of entrepreneurs, who decided that their profit is more important than freezing EU citizens. Now they want to distract from that by blaming Exporters and mainly Russia, who delivered on time and the agreed upon amount, for not offering more cheap gas under market value... Peak Capitalism ftw

[qeternity]

The difference is that under capitalism, these types of resource shortages are so rare that we all freak when they occur. The rest of the 99.99% of the time, commodities have never been as cheap or as plentiful.

Under every other system, people just came to expect shortages of basic essentials like food and fuel.

It may not be perfect, but it’s the least worst system we have.