{"id":518466,"date":"2022-09-01T10:21:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T04:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=518466"},"modified":"2022-09-01T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T06:09:30","slug":"how-german-companies-are-staring-down-putins-threat-to-cut-off-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-german-companies-are-staring-down-putins-threat-to-cut-off-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"How German companies are staring down Putin\u2019s threat to cut off gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, German lawmakers cautiously proposed ways to cut their country\u2019s ties to Russian natural gas. The heads of some of Germany\u2019s leading industrial companies, long reliant on Russian gas, wanted no part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Bruderm\u00fcller, CEO of the chemical maker BASF, one of Germany\u2019s biggest corporations, warned in April that a cutoff of Russian energy \u201ccould send the German economy into its worst economic crisis since the end of World War II.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now the price of gas has soared, recently hitting five times what it was a year ago, and Gazprom, the Russian energy monopoly, continues to keep Germany\u2019s chief executives on high alert by periodically throttling energy flows. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, German lawmakers cautiously proposed ways to cut their country\u2019s ties to Russian natural gas. The heads of some of Germany\u2019s leading industrial companies, long reliant on Russian gas, wanted no part of it. Martin Bruderm\u00fcller, CEO of the chemical maker BASF, one of Germany\u2019s biggest corporations, warned in April that a cutoff of Russian energy \u201ccould send the German economy into its worst economic crisis since the end of World War II.\u201d Now the price of gas has soared, recently hitting five times what it was a year ago, and Gazprom, the Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}