“For Europe, this means an increase in costs, which will primarily be borne by consumers.
This prolongs all the problems associated with the energy-intensive industry ... Enterprises were closed, suspended their activities, because at such prices it is quite expensive to produce products (the same nitrogen and other fertilizers) and it is unrealistic to compete with them on the world market, ”the expert emphasized ...
An alarming factor for Europe in this situation is that this indicator is not a price peak, Kulagin said.
“The main cold is ahead ... The level of gas supplies to Europe is rather low.
The level of occupancy in the storage facilities is quite low ... In general, the situation remains tense, ”the specialist said.
The Europeans can only hope for a mild winter, and, accordingly, "the gas consumption will not be so great," but "this is not the factor that can be influenced," the interlocutor of RT concluded.
Earlier, TASS, citing data from the London stock exchange ICE, reported that the price of January gas futures in Europe exceeded $ 1,700 per 1,000 cubic meters.
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