>>21020327the LNG usually has to be transferred by big tankers but the important part is that you need a very expensive port dedicated to offloading the LNG and storing it. It's actually amazing we can do it all and still be profitable, but the infrastructure is so expensive that the nations that export it (Russia, Qatar, etc) require you commit to something like 20 years without backing out.
The "trickery" is that Europe is still buying it all, mostly because they need ti and the contracts, but is telling the world they cut their dependence on Russia. Also as an aside this is why Germany refuses to use it, because they have some weird lofty goals of being 100% wind solar by 2030. And in reality that's not working and they are using coal lmao
