Friday, January 2, 2009

Ukraine again again again

As if facing an awful economy and needing the IMF to send you a nice big rescue package isn't enough, Russia also suspended gas delivery to the Ukraine -- in the mid of winter! Sortof lends a whole new meaning to the phrase "cold-hearted." But I guess Russia's got it's own finances to worry about.

I'd be interested in what a map of pipelines delivering gas from Russia to Europe looks like and how much can go through alternative pipelines and whether Russia can close the tap to Ukraine but not to e.g. Germany. Why, for example, do they keep talking about Italy in that NYT article linked to above? What about Germany? Where do they get their gas from? Is there another pipeline through e.g. Poland? Do we have our own nat gas?

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