Austrian Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner was the first national...

Austrian Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner was the first national figure to warn consumers last month that low energy supplies might make the lights go out this winter. Tanner launched a nationwide poster campaign instructing Austrians to prepare for power cuts by keeping 15 days' worth of food on hand.

“The question is not whether a blackout will come, but rather when,” she told the press.

Spain was next, after Algeria shut off one of its two pipelines feeding natural gas to the Iberian Peninsula at the end of October. Algiers says it will fulfill its contracts, and the Spanish government is projecting an aura of calm about gas supplies. Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera insists the country has enough gas reserves to cover at least 40 days’ worth of demand, far more than it should need.

But Madrid's conservative regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, is raising the possibility of blackouts this winter.

Not meaning to be a scare campaign. Just interested in how German and locals may tip the N price in our favor rather quickly

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-energy-crisis-pipeline-natural-gas-eu/