Sometimes it seems to me that some European politicians are not friendly with elementary arithmetic. Europe as a whole imports from Russia 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year (of which 100 billion cubic meters are imported by Germany alone). One tanker can bring 50 million cubic meters of liquefied gas, spending a month on the road and a week on unloading. In a year, one tanker can make about ten voyages and bring 500 million cubic meters or 0.5 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe. It will take 400 tankers to provide Europe with gas not by pipeline, but by transportation by tankers, and there are only 500 of them in the world. Plus, you need to build at least several large terminals for unloading these tankers, which will require 5-6 years of hard work and huge financial investments if you start right now. The number of terminals for receiving liquefied gas in Germany is currently zero (there are none at all). Plus, all these tankers need to be loaded with something, and the United States is now ready to supply a maximum of 15 billion cubic meters (out of the required 200), with a possible increase to 50 billion cubic meters. Plus, it is necessary to somehow convince all buyers from Asia, who are unlikely to be happy with this, to abandon the consumption of liquefied gas. Plus, liquefied gas is 15-60% more expensive than pipeline gas, depending on the season and the terms of long-term contracts with Russia for pipeline gas. This is the current situation with regard to gas, in a nutshell.