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Price for natural gas is 10 times the ordinary. Can this increase in price allow for shipment of gas e.g. in liquid form from USA? Or from other sources? Can this difference allow rapid transition towards electric uses?

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if only european leaders invested in LNG terminals and capacity to import non-russian oil and natural gas. Lithuania and Poland did, the rest of europe did not.

So many comments and none talked yet about the Groningen gas field. Europe has plenty of gas there, but instead of exploiting it, we gave in to NIMBYsm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen_gas_field

How long would it take to (re)activate pumps?

> The rest of europe did not

The UK has three existing LNG terminals and one under construction.

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