[ggm]

They have to recommission gas handling facilities, industrial plant takes months to bring back from mothballing and worldwide gas consumption is longterm contracts. Even just hiring a gas tanker takes months.

If they declare force majure and seized a boat to ship now, there would be hell to pay for some other consumer.

[fivelessminutes]

They decided to shut down two nuclear power plants, then reversed the decision due to putin's war.

So they can make big inroads into their static gas consumption by rolling with that and shutting down some or all of their gas power stations instead... it seems they have options to trim their usage to the point they can prepare for winter without funding their own security threat.