# BOTTOM LINE

By [xxcvb](https://paragraph.com/@xianqi) · 2022-07-21

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**BOTTOM LIN**E

Energy officials say Europe must find ways to save 12 billion cubic meters of gas — equal to about 3% of its annual consumption — over the next 12 weeks to avert disaster.

"This is a big ask, but it does not exaggerate the scale of what is needed," said Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, earlier this week.

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"It is categorically not enough to just rely on gas from non-Russian sources — these supplies are simply not available in the volumes required to substitute for missing deliveries from Russia," he added.

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