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5 stages of grief..Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Pay in Rubles.

One of the main problems with the Trans-Saharian pipeline is the relations between Spain, Morocco and Algeria, especially in regards to the Western Sahara issue. A video on the matter would be helpful.

France is the only country that at least partially figured it out, with nuclear. When I was a kid my dad always told me what a huge mistake it was that Italy was closing its nuclear plants down. You were right dad.

Interesting oil and gas history lesson. I had no idea the relationship went back that far. Given the loss of European colonies after WWII that makes sense.

What the EU uses natural gas for might make an interesting video. I.e. percentage of domestic, industrial and power generation and which countries could be using greener alternatives.

It is so frustrating how stupid Europe has been. Ever since Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, they should have had a plan for deteriorating relations with Russia.

It all comes down to money and time

Also. Greece apparently has huge gas reserves around its seas with some of the biggest reserves south of Crete. Which would be bigger than what Norway or Slochteren from Netherlands has. But unfortunately Greece was too late in accessing this. It was about to 7 years ago, but the continously stronger push for green energy was the reason why not just Greece but Europe had less incentive to exploit this resource.

I chuckled at the idea of Russia objecting to something on the basis of ecological concerns.

Some guy: "Maybe they should just move away form fossil fuels that they don't have?"

I often wonder if this will push the EU to reduce its use of gas and oil, and replace it with electricity. Full electrification is really the only way to do long term energy security.

Trans Adriatic Pipeline from Azerbaijan to Italy is already in place, will bring 12m this winter up from 8m this year, will bring 20m in a few years at full capacity.

Update: Marroco and Algeria are in a tense situation and the pipe in Marroco is not pumping any gas.

A little geopolitics about the East Med energy boom.

Importing natural gas from Norway would probably be the best solution for the time being. Norway is friendly and stable so most of the issues that prevented pipeline construction wouldn’t be present. It would likely only be a stopgap measure though since Norway only has about 1% of the world’s proven reserves.

You showed the volumes of each pipeline individually, but it would have been nice to see a graph with all of them together.

This guy lives in la la land.. the pipe lines he says europe can get it's gas from don't exist... they would take decades to upgrade/construct ... winter in europe is only a few months away... whichever way you look at it, the EU is screwed.

It could be interesting to dig deeper into the relationship between Algeria and Spain/EU since it has deteriorated so much recently making it harder for this pipeline to work

Also the trans-caspian pipeline would involve a significant portion of our gas imports going through Turkey, Azerbajian and dangerously close to Iran. Personally, I believe that’s worth mentioning.