[csdvrx]

They could also import from North Africa - Spain does it, Germany wants a pipeline, but France is inbetween these two and blocks such initiatives to try to keep a future for their failing nuclear industry (even if 50% of it is offline), under various fake pretenses.

It looks like a catastrophe in the making, and public opinion about say fracking or support for war sanctions might change when say grandmas start making the news for freezing to death due to prices/blackouts etc.

[weatherlite]

Fracking probably takes awhile to get started...also geological European conditions are not great for that. I do wonder why the Dutch won't reopen the Groningen gas field. Yes earthquakes I know but this is a real crisis.