Germany says it’s making progress on weaning itself off Russian fossil fuels and claims it will be entirely independent of Russian crude oil imports by late summer.
Robert Habeck, Vice-Chancellor of Germany and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, said Sunday that they had reduced their share of Russian energy imports to just 12% for oil, 8% for coal, and 35% for natural gas.
A more significant challenge lies ahead: Weaning Germany from mother Russia’s natural gas. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Germany got more than half her natural gas via imports from Russia. Today, that share is down to 35%, partly due to getting more from Norway and the Netherlands.
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