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Jerome is saying that Poland is an unreliable transit country, just as Ukraine is, because it siphons off gas for free.

What you're saying is that Poland is reliable - although (even though?) - it siphons off gas for its own use without paying for it.  I guess Russia is supposed to be grateful that Poland doesn't take 100% of the gas?

The Poles have only themselves to blame for the Germans and Russians building the pipeline around them.  They got too greedy.

by slaboymni on Mon May 8th, 2006 at 06:12:57 PM EST
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Actually, what Poland has done is much worse than what the Ukrainians have done, because the Ukrainians actually have a very strong argument to get some volumes of gas in exchange for the (much larger) volumes of transit they manage, as well as the gas storage facilities and the intra-Russian transit.

The Poles have been extracting actual cash out of Gazprom, lots of it, taking advantage of its weakness a few years back when it was literally the back against the wall.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon May 8th, 2006 at 06:17:38 PM EST
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How much do the Poles get and how does that compare with typical transit rates (if there is such a thing).  

In any case I really don't think that that is the main concern of the Poles. Any such cooperation between Germany and Russia bypassing Poland is going to make Poles rather upset - two centuries of history and on the Russian side, though not the German one, a disturbing understanding of that history.

by MarekNYC on Mon May 8th, 2006 at 08:09:33 PM EST
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