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While the other responses to your comment have given some aspects that seem applicable to me. I'd like to add the aspect of marketing. There is most likely some subsidiary of gazprom that sells Gas as more clean than coal approach and hides it's ownership to those that don't do their homework. Besides there being no real alternative to russian gas in central Europe most people will not research who is behind the name on the bill.

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I thought about that too, and decided that it's not significant.

That pipeline ends on the north coast of Germany. Its customers will have to be in 10-20 countries surrounding Germany, and energy sources are long-term decisions made by boards of directors rather than mid-level managers. Consider the next five years. Which energy company board in those countries is going to discuss two suggested investment plans, one that involves Gazprom and one that involves anything else, and pick Gazprom over an alternative?

Perhaps, my current opinion is: Many people don't care enough about politics at all to consider it a factor and maybe that changes with the situation in Ukraine but I'm not convinced. Will politicians put pressure on the companies, maybe more likely. In which case you are still right.

If people would care most couldn't afford things like driving a car.

Too many resources come from non democratic countries with a lack of human rights.

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