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Re: Who will Replace Russian Gas Supplies to Europe?
by
qwertyup23
on 22/08/2022, 16:43:06 UTC
African countries have been tipped as the best option because the continent has some of the world’s deepest gas reserves. But Africa might not replace Russia because of insecurity and lack of infrastructures.

Who will replace Russia?

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/3/1/analysis-can-african-gas-replace-russian-supplies-to-europe

This is an interesting discussion- assuming that Russia completely cuts its ties supplying gas to Europe, this would mean that there would be an increase of 65% in price of household energy.1 With this kind of increase, countries would collapse and its economy would slowly crumble following this cutting of connection.

Though this might be the case, I am assuming that the world leaders are taking measures and contingencies to prevent this from happening. I guess they are slowly looking for alternatives at this stage as they are already accepting that Russia will soon do the inevitable.


1 https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/pages/what-happens-if-russia-cuts-off-gas-to-europe-index.html