Scaroni: “Gas? Cost and availability will soon be a problem”
The war in Ukraine accelerated the gas problem in Italy. Dependence so heavily on Russia risks soon, following the sanctions imposed a Putin, to become a big trouble for our country. It is not tender, in an interview with “Sole 24 Ore”, the opinion of Paolo Scaronivice president of Rothschildwith a past at the helm of Enel and then of Eniuntil 2014, when Moscow invaded Crimea. Today the Kremlin has gone even further, attracting very heavy sanctions. “The crisis with Russia – explains Scaroni – has put us in one cyclopean trouble. In the short term, we must protect our energy security. Unfortunately we can do almost nothing, except perhaps set the house thermostat on 18 degrees instead of 22: a remedy which, moreover, would give gigantic results “.
The situation – continues Scaroni al Sole – is objectively very complicated and for some countries – like Italythe Germany O Austria – it is particularly so. For the gas they worry me both the price that the availability. Our country is not only very dependent on gas, but it is also one of the largest European buyers of Russian gas. This is also the result of 30 years of behavior of the Italians: not of successive governments, but of the citizens themselves, with their vote and their positions taken they said no to nuclear powerno ai regasifiersno to the exploitation of our resources in the Adriatic Sea. Continued oppositionwhich also turned against solar and wind power, of which now we reap the rewards“.