Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki:
“But should we be paying Norway gigantic money for gas -- four or five times more than we paid a year ago? This is sick.”
Somebody should explain economics to the Polish prime minister, and why Russian pipeline natgas was cheaper than a smaller source of natgas that everyone suddenly wants.
Maybe Poland should invade Norway and just take their oil and gas,...out of fairness.
Wonder what they will do with the money...? Build up their armed forces?
Oh, that's easy! Because Germany's Merkel thought becoming dependent on Russian gas would make Russia less bellicose!
President Trump had it right.
Instead of whining, maybe Poland should be complaining about their EU brethren who have shut down nuclear and coal fired electrical generating plants.
The EU brought this problem upon themselves because of their socialist mentalities.
Now, we see why Norway never joined the EU.
“We see you have some money there. Give it to us.”
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Darn Russians, nothing but Evil Capitalists motivated by Greed.
They are awful compared to the Noble Hard Marxist Socialist Policy Lovingly Applied by Joe Biden and the Tolerant, Inclusive and Honest Democrat Party of the US in concert with Western European Globalist Humanitarians, and their Devotion to Children.
Biden is not even getting his 10%, here. That’s not fair!
Aren’t they our NATO pals who we’ve been subsidizing? Why don’t we do the usual and send them our oil? Aren’t we here to suffer for our European pals? Why doesn’t DC print up enough to subsidize their citizens at the pumps? I mean, $40B here, $13B there, for our NATO pals? Who’s counting, other Rand Paul, anyway?
The Poles have enough gas to supply them for well over one hundred years.
So eff them. They wont go after it, then they can freeze.
Same for Germany, Same for the UK as well as many other European countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_industry_in_Poland
Sounds like Poland did a very poor job planning for their country’s energy supply.
Most of Europe is led by inept leaders to be fair.
War must be the answer I suppose…
So Poland has gone full commie? They already take in more EU financial assistance than anyone else. I knew it was a mistake to involve ourselves with these backward eastern Euro countries with their historical grievances with Russia. Both Poland and Ukraine have a well deserved reputation for being idiots, borderline 3rd world backwaters. And both will become a never ending financial drain on whatever countries they associate with.
Okay. But if in some future time supplies of natural gas increases dramatically, or demand falls, and Norway receives far less than in the comparative period used here, will the Polish PM insist that Poland send Norway some Euros to make up for their decreased revenue?
Yep.
So, is the Polish Govt going to fix prices now? Why stop at oil and gas?