The calculation seems simple: as long as Doha provides gas, Western governments will forget every postured principle they use as an excuse to raise your taxes.
Instead of ending up in Fiji to discuss environmentalism, the German foreign minister spent 50 hours getting from Berlin to Berlin, dumping 160 tons of jet fuel into the atmosphere in the meantime.
Despite the dramatic and impressive nature of these explosions, resulting in human casualties and major risks to Parisian housing, the renovation of the gas network does not appear to be a priority for the Paris City Council.
