Imagine the conversations.....that are going on between energy companies and bureaucrats. The Oil companies explaining to the cretins that time is a factor here. The Europeans need the energy more than they need the windfall profits, which they will be using to cushion the effect of higher gas prices to the unwashed.The energy companies will explain in detail that they can help with energy or they can help by allowing themselves to be robbed, but they can't or wont do both. Governments are woking on the assumption that the Ukraine war will be over by next winter because Ukraine will have come to terms with Russia. No, they wont Therefore, the supply problem continues, and if they want the cooperation of the energy suppliers they need to decide whether the long term goals of independent supplies come from companies with a gun to their head, or from partners who work together.