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€2,000 per 1,000 cubic meters is equal to $65 per thousand cubic feet, which is about 10 times the wholesale cost of gas in the [[Midwest]] (where prices have already risen sharply this winter).

€2,000 per 1,000 cubic meters is equal to $65 per thousand cubic feet, which is about 10 times the wholesale cost of gas in the [[Midwest]] (where prices have already risen sharply this winter).

The pipeline directly undercuts Germany's efforts to meet [[Paris Climate Agreement]] targets.  The pipeline is intended to bail out Germany’s failed energy policies that first tilted [[left]] toward [[Green energy]], and when it failed, Germany went back to high polluting [[coal]].  [[France]] opposed this deal.  President [[Emmanuel Macron]] repeatedly publicly told Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]] that he opposed it.  European countries opposed it because they don’t want Russia to impose hegemonic influence. Ukrainian [[President Volodymyr Zelensky]] accused the Biden junta of handing Putin a "weapon,"  

The pipeline directly undercuts Germany's efforts to meet [[Paris Climate Agreement]] targets.  The pipeline is intended to bail out Germany’s failed energy policies that first tilted [[left]] toward [[Green energy]], and when it failed, Germany went back to high polluting [[coal]].  European countries opposed it because they don’t want Russia to impose hegemonic influence.  [[Franch]] President [[Emmanuel Macron]] repeatedly publicly told Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]] that he opposed it.  Ukrainian [[President Volodymyr Zelensky]] accused the Biden junta of handing Putin a "weapon,"  

{{quotebox|"This is a weapon, a real weapon … in the hands of the [[Russian Federation]].  It is not very understandable … that the bullets to this weapon can possibly be provided by such a great country as the [[United States]].  How many Ukrainian lives does the relationship between the United States and Germany cost?"<ref>https://www.axios.com/zelensky-biden-ukraine-russia-nord-stream-pipeline-fe50756b-6b82-43f0-b390-734ea3e95de0.html</ref>}}

{{quotebox|"This is a weapon, a real weapon … in the hands of the [[Russian Federation]].  It is not very understandable … that the bullets to this weapon can possibly be provided by such a great country as the [[United States]].  How many Ukrainian lives does the relationship between the United States and Germany cost?"<ref>https://www.axios.com/zelensky-biden-ukraine-russia-nord-stream-pipeline-fe50756b-6b82-43f0-b390-734ea3e95de0.html</ref>}}