> NUCLEAR!, to keep their industry energy independent of Russia

The world (EU and US included) is heavily dependent on Russian nuclear imports and technology. Here is an in-depth article on why this is so difficult to overcome:

https://thebulletin.org/2022/05/five-reasons-that-russias-nu...

You assume that oil and gas are only used as energy components, but they are also raw materials required in industry.

If energy usage is removed, then surely there is enough oil and gas in other countries to supply Germany.

People like you look at these things as if you just shift numbers around on an excel sheet. There is still physics and geography involved here. German industry is already hardly competitive in terms of price, what do you think happens when those raw materials are 10 times more expensive?

Now there is a price crunch for LNG tanker charters further pushing up prices. Also it's so disingenuous. Indians are now refining Russian oil, selling it back to Europe but Eurocrats and lying politicians get to pretend they're going off hydrocarbons.

With oil the solution is trivial. Switch to electrical cars while generating electricity for them with modern efficient coal plants using German coal. Not only it will be cheaper and reduce geopolitical risks, but it will drop CO2 emission as well.

This is clearly a new and exciting definition of the word “trivial” that I was previously unaware of.

Don't forget that LNG market is mostly short-term, and Russian pipes work under long-term contracts.

Why would they do it? Russia never failed delivering cheap gas.

Really? So Russia just didn't stop gas exports to Finland?

It did after Finland refused to pay.

Let me complete that sentence for you.... after Finland refused to pay in rubels because the signed gas import-export contract specified other currencies.

Didn't EU freeze all Russian dollar accounts? That basically means Russia never gets those dollar payments. Why would it keep delivering gas for free? Does that "contract" even mean anything then? By switching to rubles Russia actually helped EU nations with a legal way to keep paying for gas.

No, EU has not sanctiond _all_ Russian banks. IIRC the reason was that some counties in the EU still needed to keep paying for gas.

If you fuck up and get your bank account frozen that does not mean that you don’t have to pay your morgage or that you can pay it with monopoly money.

Also there is a big difference between freezing access to a bank account and taking ownership of the funds.

> there is a big difference between freezing access to a bank account and taking ownership of the funds.

No it’s not so big, because freezing can be unlimited in time and you can’t use that money. What point of having money on account if you can not use them? These are just numbers on the screen.

If your account can be frozen any time by the bank, it means you don’t really own the money, and the bank is not trustworthy.

That changes nothing. Finland refused to pay.

Most of the European companies adopted the new scheme within their current contracts, so it was a technical thing. Russia just needed to be paid in currency that can not be stolen by some lunatic government.

It was not just a technical thing... it was unilateral change of a legal contract and blackmail by Russian regime that yet again demonstrated clearly that contracts and treaties mean nothing to it.

Actually all the sanctions from the west are unilateral change to thousands of contracts, and expropriation of russian assets is straightforward stealing.

Even freezing of central bank accounts is basically the unilateral unlawful change of contract.

Finland broke the contract with russian railroads, with russian electric providers, it cancelled the contract with RosAtom.

Additionally it started the process of joining NATO, which effectively breaks the peace treaty of 1948.

Who are you? Some russian troll?

Are you a nuclear power lobbyist? How much do you get paid for this post?