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Germany to stop Russian oil imports by end of this year
BBC News ^ | April 20, 2022

Posted on 04/20/2022 9:53:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Germany has said it will stop importing oil from Russia by the end of the year.

"We will halve oil by the summer and will be at zero by the end of the year, and then gas will follow," said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.

Germany currently buys a quarter of its oil and 40% of its gas from Russia and has warned that it could face a recession if supplies suddenly stopped.

The US has already banned Russian oil imports, while the UK plans to phase them out by the end of the year.

The EU has said it will switch to alternative supplies and make Europe independent from Russian energy "well before 2030".

Ms Baerbock said it would follow a "European roadmap" in phasing out oil and gas imports.

"Our joint exit, the complete exit of the European Union, is our common strength," she added.

Germany has already halted the opening of a big Russian gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2, in response to the war.

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To: FLT-bird
They should build LNG terminals

Floating eggshells with all those anonymous antitank missiles and antiaircraft missiles floating around Europe?

Wait'll the first one goes up in a "terrorist attack". You can't guarantee delivery, and Russia has every right to pay back the West with its own weapons that were dumped in Ukraine.


This video will blow your hair back when you figure out what's going on over there.

Various Western Media are running concern-troll stories about weapons like this "disappearing" when they reach Ukraine...

https://www.kake.com/story/46321996/what-happens-to-weapons-sent-to-ukraine-the-us-doesnt-really-know

41 posted on 04/20/2022 1:08:24 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Tell It Right

Russia will send oil and gas to Belarus.
Then “Belarusian” oil and gas will go to Germany.


42 posted on 04/20/2022 1:38:37 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: far sider

Then they should try American LNG as a permanent solution.


43 posted on 04/21/2022 11:19:48 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Morpheus2009

They don’t fear nuclear — they fear Russian nuclear.


44 posted on 04/21/2022 11:23:20 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: TTFlyer

They can always respond with: Achtung Panzer!!


45 posted on 04/21/2022 11:26:07 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: FLT-bird

>>.they were idiots to make themselves so dependent in the first place.<<

Germans are not all that smart.

Few attend the Max Planck Institute.


46 posted on 04/21/2022 11:30:16 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: far sider

Then they should try American LNG as a permanent solution.


47 posted on 04/21/2022 11:33:23 AM PDT by 353FMG
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