Gazprom Gives Warning on European Gas Supply.

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Gazprom, which purchased European energy security for a mere 300,000 Euros per year (anti-nuke Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's salary) announced today that it thought it may have trouble delivering gas to Europe this year unless Ukraine agrees to become a vassal state once again:

MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian energy giant Gazprom warned European clients Friday that its gas conflict with Ukraine, conduit for European-bound gas from Russia, could affect deliveries to Europe.

The warning came in a letter from Gazprom chief Alexei Miller to the company's European clients.

"Gazprom is doing everything possible to avoid any disruption of gas deliveries to Europe," said Miller in the letter cited by Interfax news agency.

"However, if events develop along an unfavourable scenario, the problem of Ukrainian transit will be a common problem for Russia and Europe," Miller said.

Gazprom and Ukraine's state energy firm Naftogaz have for the last weeks failed to agree a solution over unpaid debts in a conflict that comes amid increasing diplomatic tensions between Moscow and Kiev.

"We consider that it's our duty to warn (Europe) that we cannot be sure that transit obligations will be respected, seeing that Naftogaz is systematically slowing its contractual obligations," Miller said in his letter.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Ukraine on Wednesday to pay its gas debts "to the last ruble" or face the prospect of sanctions from Moscow against its wider economy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081226/bs_afp/russiaukraineenergygaseurope_081226211329

In the advent of the shutdown of German, Italian and Spanish dangerous natural gas generation plants - it is unlikely that the dangerous natural gas exporters Norway and Denmark will be able to make up the shortfall since they are burning large amounts of dangerous natural gas for their own power plants - it is unlikely that France, which is already the largest exporter of electricity in Europe will be able to keep German, Italian and Spanish lights on.

However the Germans have a wonderful solar program and assuming that their solar cells are not covered by ice and snow and producing at 1% of capacity, they can have heat, lights, and - most importantly - television whenever the sun is shining brightly in Germany near the winter solstice.

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I thought they were just a solar pool heater or two away from total, dipshit emoticon parenthetical success!