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  Well of course they will, especially now, as any price drops will gradually start next year if at all. Core human needs like food/water/electricity/heating need to be more closely regulated by the government to ensure consumers aren't getting completely fucked, unless they want a recession.
context: Wasn't it supposed to be most expensive in winter when supplies are scarce? >
  
  It's been a milder winter (Spain is at around 7 degrees above the norm), countries prepared for the winter before it hit and consumption was reduced to preserve gas reserves.  
  So yes; all of that was correctly predicted and therefore measures were taken to stop the worst possible outcome, plus we've been lucky so far in having warmer temperatures.  
  It's a bit like preparing for a big storm, and when it hits it doesn't feel as bad precisely because you're prepared for it. If you don't do anything and just wait for it outside then of course it would be a lot worse >
  
  People are weird about prevention.
  Same thing happened with Y2K. Hundreds of hours of work, work and work... got rewarded with snide comments and jokes when the greatest succes possible happened:
  Nothing, because the problems... got fixed preemptively. >
  
  2038* is gonna be a whole another story >
  
  You mean 2038 >
  
  What is supposed to happen in 2038? >
  
  The 32-bit integer limit for keeping time will be reached and, if I'm not mistaken, time on most 32-bit systems will show the time as 1970-01-01. It's why many systems are slowly beginning to push for mandatory 64-bit upgrades now.
  Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this but I think I got the general idea right. >
  
  The 2038 problem will actually overflow to be displayed as 1901-12-13, since this particular overflow is for a signed 32-bit number (stores numbers between -2^31 and 2^31 - 1 ), and won't overflow to 0.
  Unsigned 32 bit time won't overflow until year 2106), but any modern programs should be using 64 bit time, which can handle billions of years. >
  
  As a time traveller from the apocalypse-ridden times of 2107, I can assure you that the complete switch to 64bit took longer than expected. >
  
  As a time traveler from the utopian 300,000,000,000AD era, where the only problem is that you guys decided to switch to 64-bit, I can assure you that you should be going for 128-bit, which can handle trillions of years >
  
  Pre-Russian invasion would be a better headline >
  
  Pretty much every war starts with an invasion. >
  
  I think they just meant before the full Feb invasion. Technically the actual war has been happening since 2014 >
  
  Thanks Brandon! >
  
  Wait, where did all those stickers go at the gas pumps??? >
  
  It's about natural gas, not petrol. >
  
  I don't understand why Americans call it gas. It's a liquid >
  
  Short for gasoline >
  
  Well that makes sense >
  
  Where are those ads from Russia again that we will freeze to dead and eating our own dogs? >
  
  The price is so low because everyone in Europe froze to death already, so there's no one to buy the gas >
  
  Can confirm. Am frozen dead >
  
  Same. Completely frozen and dead here at 10 degrees Celsius. If only we listened to Gazprom’s commercial :( >
  
  Aaaaaaand I strongly suspect all the profiteering shady energy companies will still rake in record profits. Disgusting.