@jwildeboer I do agree that the efforts on the EU level including when it comes to reducing total gas usage have been pretty effective. There are also states in the EU that basically have invested zero effort into reducing their dependency and that’s unacceptable. I just don’t agree that Germany is the shining beacon here.

@jwildeboer Like I said, we just happen to buy significant chunks of our gas via pipelines from countries that just happen to import significant quantities of Russian LNG. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@jwildeboer The primary LNG importing ports that Germany relied on have historically been in Belgium and the Netherlands, both of which import significant amounts of Russian gas. So either our purchases from there are Russian LNG or domestic production which gets sold to Germany and backfilled with Russian LNG. Neither of which is great.

My more general point is: Looking at individual countries in a European market is comparatively low value.

@jwildeboer I refer to the sources you posted above. It’s also relevant to take into account that Germany receives most of its gas from pipelines and that includes LNG offloaded at other ports - we do have growing, but still limited capacity for unloading LNG. The source you posted is unclear on how LNG unloaded at other European ports is accounted for.

@jwildeboer Germany however does import gas from Spain and Belgium. Which import gas from Russia. So we do import Russian gas, we just like it laundered.