Natural gas used to cost less than that for most homes. Using 15 m3 of fire wood is terribly inefficient and heavily polluting. That's okay in remote areas, but not in cities where far too many houses stand close together.
It is no longer just a question of the price of gas, but the question of whether there will be enough of it, given that the EU began to face decreasing supplies from alternative sources where it mostly relied on the US, which according to some news can no longer keep up the same pace as before. In addition, Norway also announced that it had to reduce gas deliveries due to regular maintenance.
Firewood is certainly not an ideal option, but at the moment it is something that can provide additional insurance in the event of a gas shortage. In my area, more or less everyone has gas heating, but they also have wood/pallet stoves, which we will use if necessary.
Cause if Germany would cut gas consumption tomorrow there wouldn't be a crisis anymore. If Bulgaria would do the same it would not matter as they burn about 20 times less. If tomorrow Coinfield is hacked nobody will care, if Binance's coins are gone, we're going to go through a lot of pain...
If they are the only problem, why don't we ask them nicely to play penguin this winter and make sacrifices for everyone else? Joking aside, I have already said several times that all these stories about freezing are overemphasized and are part of Russian propaganda, which in this way tries to influence the even greater destabilization of the EU.
Meanwhile, in Hungary, the Russian company
Rosatom is starting to build two new nuclear reactors, because Orban has no problems with the war in Ukraine.