The latest rise will be to $485 per 1,000 cubic metres - two days after Gazprom announced a 44 percent increase in the gas price to $385.5 per 1,000 cubic metres from $268.5 due to unpaid bills. This is much more than the average price paid by consumers in the European Union.
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A neat trap. IOW, the EUnuch transnationals could buy and resell to the Ukrainian dupes for less, easing or eliminating Ukraine’s need to purchase from Russia. But they won’t.
“Too much like effort on our part” the EUnuchs will say. “Let our American janissaries fight the Skythian savages to secure our new satrapy. Do not disturb our slumber with mundane matters again.”
I wonder if the EU price is calculated to encourage addiction to Russian gas?