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EuroParl just approved plans to have 80% gas stockpiles by November:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220616IP...

And of course Russia isn't the only place to get gas.

You can have any plans, but if you have no sources to fill those stockpiles, such plans worth nothing. Qatar refuses to supply without decades long contracts. USA is unable to supply EU. Not to mention, that even filling EU reserves to 100% won’t let you pass the winter, as storage facilities are just helping during high demand months like during winter or hot summer, but if the flow of gas from Russia stops, most EU countries gonna deplete their reserves in a few weeks.

I'm seeing a law, not a plan.

There's a difference, e.g. everyone is to be over 7 foot tall by January 1st. is a law. A plan would involve a series of steps on how we get everyone to grow a foot or more in 6 months.

The Netherlands has started burning more coal, so Germany can have more gas. Drilling more gas from Groningen can be done at a moments notice, and will be done before either Dutch or German houses are without heating

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