You know that 90+% of heating in Berlin is Gas based,
probably 50%+ of stoves and ovens are gas based.
More warm water is also gas based.
Numbers are similar for many parts of eastern Germany.
For western Germany the a slightly less, but still very high.
Gas Germany imports is also re-exported to other countries.
Some financially much worse off.
You are literally asking Germany to derive a non-small amount
of their financially weaker of people of heating, cooking and
warm water. And this would not just affect Germany but other
EU countries too, destabilizing all of the EU.
At the same time it doesn't necessary stop the war, and might
even escalate it even.
Also many of the alternative sources we could buy gas from don't
have the infrastructure to ship it to us fast enough (yet).
Worse some of the alternative sources are states like Qatar, which
are from a democratic, ethical and cultural point of view worse then
Russia, they are just spacial further away...
The main objective of the EU is to protect it's citizens and implicitly
secondarily democracy. Switching of Russian gas _now_ would fail both.
Leading to internally instability we can't afford which would be a perfect
presence for the word wide re-emerging fascism.
Now that's how it's now, a lot of thinks are already underway to change this.
Numbers are similar for many parts of eastern Germany.
For western Germany the a slightly less, but still very high.
Gas Germany imports is also re-exported to other countries.
Some financially much worse off.
You are literally asking Germany to derive a non-small amount of their financially weaker of people of heating, cooking and warm water. And this would not just affect Germany but other EU countries too, destabilizing all of the EU.
At the same time it doesn't necessary stop the war, and might even escalate it even.
Also many of the alternative sources we could buy gas from don't have the infrastructure to ship it to us fast enough (yet).
Worse some of the alternative sources are states like Qatar, which are from a democratic, ethical and cultural point of view worse then Russia, they are just spacial further away...
The main objective of the EU is to protect it's citizens and implicitly secondarily democracy. Switching of Russian gas _now_ would fail both. Leading to internally instability we can't afford which would be a perfect presence for the word wide re-emerging fascism.
Now that's how it's now, a lot of thinks are already underway to change this.
But changes take time.