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  Thanks Putin!
context: One thing that stood out to me was how much Germany's gas consumption dropped in 2022:
  
  According to Bundesnetzagentur, Germany’s natural gas consumption dropped by 14% in 2022 compared to the average consumption for the past four years. Industrial demand fell by 15% compared to the average for the past four years. Between October and December, industrial gas consumption fell by 23%, and consumption by private consumers and businesses was 21% below the previous years. >
  
  German here, gas was just way too expensive for me this year, so we had to adapt... for my money's sake >
  
  How did you adapt? >
  
  Using less heating >
  
  As a Norwegian having visited most of Europe I'm amazed at the lack of modern climate adaption in houses. 
  Hopefully this will be a driver for Europe to modernize housing to enter the 21st century. >
  
  its almost impossible to get a heatpump installed right now or solar because the waiting list is so long (in germany).
  labor to install them and materials are scarce because the demand exploded. >
  
  Better insulation and windows is another thing. Will reduce energy needs both winter and summer. >
  
  As he said, labour rates are exploding. Unless you know how to change windows. >
  
  I do! I'll do it! ... For money >
  
  Specifically, Blemflarcks >
  
  Define Irony leveraging Gas to make Europe fall in line. Europe starts not only buying gas from other sources but also starting to decrease gas consumption! >
  
  Decreasing gas consumption to save the environment, Great!  
  Decreasing because people can't afford it and just chose to freeze instead? Not so great. >
  
  People aren't going to freeze if they could afford heating earlier.
  They might be chilly since the thermostat might not be set to 22, but freezing? Nah. >
  
  22? Tf? I'm in the US and I'm at 19C. 
  From what they've told me, they're at 17. They'd go lower but they have young kids. Our heating bill is $200 a month, in the US. Our house is in Manhattan, 700sq ft. >
  
  I just looked up the average thermostat temp and it was 20-22.
  shrug
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  Nothing meant by that number. >
  
  Yeah, we used to do 21C. But saving money sucks ig. I'm just pointing out, even a $100-$200 increase a month is a LOT for a good 50% of people. >
  
  Some of it is conservation but likely a good chunk of that is warmer weather. Industrial demand tends to be baseload and residential driven almost purely by weather >
  
  I’ve barely used my heating but yes, weather is a part of that but I and everybody I know also tries to reduce consumption. I’m wearing a sweater instead etc… 
  Just being less wasteful goes a long way already. >
  
  If we really needed a full scale war in Europe before people put on sweaters in winter, I don't want to know what we'll need to win the fight against climate change. >
  
  Do people in the colder parts of Europe not wear warm clothes inside during cold weather? That cant be true...
  Living in the parts of NA where winter is a season, warm weather clothing indoors is quite literally a must. Especially for poorer households. >
  
  Well, I wear shorts and a t-shirt when I'm inside all year around.
  But I have no control over the heating, I live in a apartment building and everyone have the same temperature, which is around 20C. >
  
  The gas weapon always was a blunt sword. Russia could use it exactly once. They will never again have any significant share of energy exports towards Europe.
  Not even in an all democratic post Putin area.
  They played the card, we called and they went down on the River >
  
  Well, there is always the scarier threat. Russia could threaten to invade these fledgling countries and crush all of europe with their mighty army and fifth generation planes! >
  
  They could threaten to use nukes, for like the 50th time. >
  
  I thought they'd already reached that milestone in the first few weeks of their invasion? >
  
  Putin has succeeded in moving europe off Russian gas and then also slashing demand for fossil fuels. A win for us all, and a big loss for him. What a moron. >
  
  Putin is doing more for NATO/the climate than anyone ever could, and fast too >
  
  Anyone remember that one show where Norway got invaded? Didn't get to finish it, if anyone remembers the title tell me please.
  Edit: thanks everyone that reminded me of the title, I have to finish it now, I actually liked it, don't know why I stopped watching it >
  
  Great show! It's about a stealth invasion and occupation of Norway by unmarked Russian soldiers, for those that don't know it.
  Was there ever a season 2? The last thing I remember was the Norwegian resistance getting organized in the forest. That cliffhanger has been hanging for the last 10 years... >
  
  Oh yeah dude there's 3 seasons it's all on Netflix. >
  
  
  it's all on Netflix.
  
  Not in Germany :( >
  
  VPN my dude >
  
  Thanks Norway! >
  
  Unless Norway invades Sweden!....
  This all a plot by the Norwegians to make Europe dependent on gas so they can invade Sweden !!! A war to settle all Nordic wars!
  /Jk >
  
  It's retribution after Danish and Swedish ruling and the invasion from Germany. The Roman Catholics are next.
  /Jk ofc >
  
  Heheh ja, vi bare tuller selvfølgelig >
  
  Självklart… 🤨 Ni vet var vi finns, söte lillebror. Kom bara. >
  
  Vi vil ikke ha Sverige 🤪 >
  
  Tänk på allt billigt kött! Inga fler bussresor över gränsen för bacon >
  
  Men det er jo grensen som gjør det så billig. Nei til EU! Vi må kunne harryhandle! >
  
  Remember when the Russia bots were all like "Winter is coming. Europe is going to freeze to death. They are killing their own people." So on and so on?
  Yeah, go fuck yourselves. >
  
  I've never seen anyone with as little self awareness and so many failed predictions as Russian shills. My favourite remains how they were telling everyone to "never underestimate your enemy" before the war started. >
  
  "Our models predicted half of all Europeans will freeze to death after passing out in the outhouse in vodka induced stupors without Russian gas and wall carpet insulation to heat back up again. No idea why our predictions failed, must've been aliens or nazis or something!" >
  
  If Norway really has enough to sell to replace Russia, I'm sure Germany and other central European countries will help invest in pipeline projects eventually. >
  
  its 23% of the eu+uk demand for gas, russia is at 31%, however, only 40% of our natural gas resources are being produced.
  So outside of a shipping problem, and some political squabble to build more oil platforms to extract gas and oil, it's fully doable, yes. >
  
  Fuck, now Norway is going to invade England. >
  
  Wouldn't be the first time we did. >
  
  Should have happened a long time ago.  Norway is a far more politically and ideologically stable partner. >
  
  Norway rocks! >
  
  This is going to make the Russians 😡 very angry at Norway…
  Oh well. Congrats Norway. 
  Russia did this to themselves. >
  
  As a Norwegian who frequently visits UkraineWarVideoReport - that country and 95% of the people in it can go fuck itself. >
  
  As a Ukrainian, I just thank you for sharing your thoughts. >
  
  Norway has ties with Ukraine going back a 1000 years. So most here don't mind telling Russia exactly where to put it. >
  
  Norway: stonks >
  
  🇩🇪  🇳🇴 ✌️ 🙏 👍🏻 >
  
  Russia has well and truly fucked itself by doing this. The repercussions for their oil-based economy will affect multiple generations. >
  
  Russia is collapsing. Their economy is now going to hell and their demographics has gone to shit >
  
  Sweden here, watch out for those damn monkey mountain norska, they'll invade munich for beer. >
  
  Good old europe, we always hate each other in a very loving way :D
  Come to germany, we hate each other internally, fuck those pesky bavarians >
  
  Bavarians? Fuck those people from one town over! >
  
  Yeah, but unironically. Fuckers almost blocked our wind turbines. They were planned for the middle of the forest and they would replant trees as replacement elsewhere. But noooo NIMBY at its finest. Looking at a map, they will be at the very least 2,5 km away from the nearest settlement. Nowadays, those concerned citizens make sure that the turbines won't cause water contamination. Yeah... >
  
  Cheers Norway! >
  
  Yeeees. Time to retake Jemtland and Herjedalen from Sweden!
  But what symbol to use? According to precedent it can't be a letter from our alphabet, anyone got a nice arabic symbol we can borrow? >
  
  Are you sure we really want it back? There's nothing there of interest... >
  
  Norwegian wood. >
  
  This guy did the EU4 achievement. >
  
  🇳🇴 🤝 🇩🇪 >
  
  easy there >
  
  I, for one, welcome our new scandinavian overlords. >
  
  Makes me wonder how Slashdot is doing >
  
  as it should always have been, if German politicians had any sense. >
  
  For such a relative small country, this is relly impressive, thank you very much Norway. >
  
  Wear a sweater, save Ukrainian lives! >
  
  So how will Russia attempt to sabotage this? Svalbard shenanigans will soon begin. >
  
  Russia is currently droning Norwegian petroleum installations.
  There's a very real risk that there will be an explosion cutting this supply.
  Both British and German warships are currently patrolling the North Sea. >
  
  We all know the war is a staged Norwegian ploy to sell more LNG >
  
  Work-from-home Viking pillagers! >
  
  That’s working smarter, not harder. >
  
  Serious question: why didn't we do this sooner? Norway is nearer to us, is it bc it was cheaper? >
  
  
  bc it was cheaper?
  
  It's unclear if it would be more expensive with Norwegian gas, if investments had been done 20 years ago.
  But Brussels has made an Energy Directive that makes the price of gas varying on a daily basis.
  In such a market, Russia with state run supplies, can undercut any Norwegian price. So they have basically gotten a monopoly on new gas supplies.
  Brussels and Germany knew about this; Norway protested the system, but since we are not member of EU, we were helpless to stop all trades and all money ending up in Russia. Buying weapons that now are pointed towards West. >
  
  The funny part is that now the EU is protesting the high prices for Norwegian gas that The EU energy directive caused. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 67%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Norway became Germany's single-largest natural gas supplier in 2022, overtaking Russia, as total German gas imports dropped by 12.3% compared to 2021, the German Federal Network Agency, Bundesnetzagentur, said on Friday.
  Norway provided 33% of the gas Germany imported last year, followed by Russia, whose share fell to 22% for last year, compared to a 52% share in 2021, said the German regulator.
  Last year, Russia started gradually cutting gas supply via the Nord Stream pipeline to Germany in June until shutting down the pipeline in early September, claiming an inability to repair gas turbines for the pumping stations due to Western sanctions.
  
  
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  So norway become highest gas supplier only because of Russian supplies were gone? How about the german gas usage? >
  
  Norway could have taken Russia's place. But lack of contracts means that there are lack of investment.
  The main supply now is going in pipes laid in the the early 1970s. Germany was adamant on only giving contracts to Russia for many years; it will take at least 15 years to catch up on the lacking investments. 
  And Norway is not going to do it. We do not trust Germany. Norwegian companies think Germany will abandon us and return to Russia the second there is a ceasefire in Ukraine. >
  
  Yeah, I remember our politicians talking about the massive amounts of gas exports that would start in Norway, because of the green shift in Europe. This was a few years ago now, but then Germany turned to Russia instead and cut Norway out as a nat gas provider. >
  
  You say that as if Germany did this because they are evil. How often does Norway buy stuff for a higher price when you can get it cheaper elsewhere? >
  
  How often do other countries invest billions into gas pipelines with 
  Russia even after Crimea? Germany isn't evil but greedy and politically incompetent as NS2 didn't make sense once you start to think about risk and leverage. >
  
  The idea behind the pipelines is not only cheap supply but also co-dependence. Russias economy is massively dependent on their fuel exports and Germany was its biggest customer. 
  Russia can’t afford to lose its energy exports to Germany and the rest of the EU. For a rational government, that would’ve been reason enough to not invade Ukraine.
  This war has catastrophic consequences for Russias economy, demographic and international standing, many of which are only starting to show while Germany and other EU states are doing quite well all things considered. >
  
  
  This war has catastrophic consequences for Russias economy
  
  Its still miscalculation in part of Europe. This is like handcuffing yourself to a psycopath in order to keep tabs on them. Technically works but in reality its fucking dumb.
  The suffering of their people and the collapse of their economy is only one more variable for them, and putting them in a "we will both suffer if we do this" type choice is always a bad idea with Russia, as Russia will always bet on the fact that they can out-suffer you. >
  
  I envisage that gas scarcity in Germany has a bigger affect on industry than the populace. For example whilst countries like Russia export large amounts of unrefined metals it is (in the EU mostly) Germany (being a hi tech industrial giant) which transforms it into the actual useable metals we use. In fact Germany has around 5000 metal processing companies in Germany, employing over 500,000 people. Much of this industry (currently) requires natural gas, so the danger to Germany is that should Gas run out there will be half a million people with no work and from a broader EU and rest of world perspective there will be supply chain issues of epic proportions. I’m short Germany cannot run out of gas because everyone will be in big trouble.
  On the other handcountries  like Russia do not have the infrastructure, industry, skilled labor and technology to produce metals, they just export the unrefined ore etc. This is all done via rail because Russia is so vast there isn’t any other way to move it. >
  
  Bright future for Norway >
  
  Just buying more stocks in the stockmarket. >
  
  I just today was watching a video from the Russian new years state run propaganda show and one of the lines the guy said in the new years speech to everyone was "And you know one thing you can't cook Ukrainian borscht, french onion soup or German wurst's without? Russian gas!"   
  Well I guess now they can cook all the sausages they want in Germany without Russian gas lmaoooooooooooo >
  
  We love Norway >
  
  Gotta love Norway 🇳🇴 😎 >
  
  Norway getting even richer >
  
  Good. As far as I know, Norway doesn't have a record of being a piece of shit. Also, I'm American and don't know anything about Norway, so if the euros can let me keep that opinion in peace, I'd appreciate it. >
  
  Eh, I'm Norwegian and we've had a few shameful moments. We haven't properly bullied and slaughtered much since the viking era, but we have been woefully cruel to Scandinavia's indigenous population up to modern day (some would say until the 60s, some 80s and some would say we still have a way to go).
  So I'd call us pretty average on the asshat scale.
  And we're extreme fond of Brits, Swedes and Danes (but we never tell them that) - so they are the ones we pick most verbal fights with. With the cruelty and love of siblings, of course. Wedgies and tattletailing included. >
  
  Almost every country has some dark history, especially towards the indigenous population. But Norway is still pretty tame compared to other countries. >
  
  Don’t forget that we are technically still receiving gas from Russia. >
  
  No, the last pipeline was blown up two weeks ago. By someone. >
  
  Cries in Canadian*