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If I get it right, usually -in the winter time- pipeline gas takes care of some 50% of consumption, and the rest is supplied from the storages?

So my question is: Can storages supply enough gas flow in order to fully substitute the lack of pipeline gas?

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Thank you for this article. Indeed, it may take time to adjust to the major war-induced energy shocks. On Iran, nobody would see it as efficient or very dynamic. however, I would offer an article published by Brookings. In ppp terms gdp per capita was not as bad as it was commonly believed. see, for example, figure 2. Also, in 2011, major mistakes in macroeconomic policy made the situation worse than it could have been https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/03/14/irans-economy-40-years-after-the-islamic-revolution/amp/

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