Quote Originally Posted by Splashone View Post
I keep seeing this repeated. What did you guys do during the Iron curtain days?
Not use gas as much

These days all houses are heated use natural gas, and cooking is done on natural gas.
In the old days, heating was done using diesel oil, which came from somewhere else.
And it is of course a fact that in those days we only used half the amount of energy per capita we use now (I just looked it up)

As Ivan says: in the long run, there are alternatives. But in the short term 'hey my heater is not working' timeframe, if Putin closes the natural gas lines, we're in trouble.