>>We could all survive the winter in our coats.

Not so easy. We both live in New England.

The issue is Germany's utter reliance on Russian natural gas. Turning that off would collapse their economy - and also turn off their heat. I wish that weren't the case, but it's not our call. More practically, forcing them to do that might break NATO. There do seem to be a few things afoot. Germany doesn't currently have a way to get CNS from, say, the US into their pipeline network. They're working on that. Sending enough from the US will raise the price here a bit - not to European levels, but maybe enough to make building pipelines to where it's currently being flared off as a waste product economically feasible. (There's quite a lot in North America.)

Just my $0.02.