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No gas deliveries to end consumers have been cut anywhere yet, given that all countries have storage of some sort. Given that winter demand is about 3 times summer demand (and demand on a cold day like now is probably even higher), the Ukrainian pipelines do not deliver all of current consumption even for countries that receive all their gas from Russia.

Some countries depend more on Russian gas, and have less storage capacity, o things could get dicey faster there, but we're not here yet. Remember that we're at the beginning og winter, which means that storage has to be full pretty much everywhere to cope wit hthe next couple months of cold weather...

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

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 6th, 2009 at 04:04:54 PM EST
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Yet the notion of Europeans "freezing", "shivering", etc, all because of the big, bad Russian bear, is so tempting a journalistic narrative that almost all reporting is full of it.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 02:05:32 AM EST
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"... all reporting is full of it."

The SlangReport points out the double entendre..."full of it" equals "full of shit" in the original vernacular.  

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

by siegestate (siegestate or beyondwarispeace.com) on Wed Jan 7th, 2009 at 04:37:32 AM EST
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