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As a minority investor. we took over our main energy asset. last year, we were 90% russian gas—dependent. 2023, we will be 0% gas dependent. well, hang on, let me stop you there, you say by 2023 — something strange is happening with regard to gas in latvia, because at the very end ofjuly, gazprom announced that they were ceasing all supplies to a whole bunch of countries, including latvia. only five days later, it was reliably reported here that latvia, once again, was indeed receiving russi...

A majority stake control, gazprom is completely out, we have a japanese company as a minority investor. we took over our main energy asset. last year, we were 90% russian gas—dependent. 2023, we will be 0% gas dependent. well, hang on, let me stop you there, you say by 2023 — something strange is happening with regard to gas in latvia, because at the very end ofjuly, gazprom announced that they were ceasing all supplies to a whole bunch of countries, including latvia. 0nly five days later, i...

2023, we will be 0% gas dependent. well, hang on, let me stop you there, you say by 2023 — something strange is happening with regard to gas in latvia, because at the very end ofjuly, gazprom announced that they were ceasing all supplies to a whole bunch of countries, including latvia. only five days later, it was reliably reported here that latvia, once again, was indeed receiving russian gas. so are you weaning yourself completely off russian gas right now, or not? yes — the majority of ou...

Youve done nothing really to address that. not true — we have our biggest infrastructural asset in the energy field is an underground storage facility in latvia, which can hold about two years of our own supply. from 1997, that has been under the control of gazprom. my government now has taken a majority stake control, gazprom is completely out, we have a japanese company as a minority investor. we took over our main energy asset. last year, we were 90% russian gas—dependent. 2023, we will b...

I think the answer is, japanjust has a lot of legacy infrastructure, and its still building new coal—fired power stations today. just earlier this week i was out filming — about an hour south of tokyo, they are building a huge new, brand—new coal fire power station there, which will go online in 2023. something with that much investment will need to run 40—50 years, taking it well into the 20605 or 705, and japan hasjust got a lot of this infrastructure and a lot of heavy industry, and i...

Medicare program to pay for the obamacare program. do you think raiding medicare to pay for obamacare is an achievement? >> no. >> do you think empowering a board of bureaucrats to cut medicare an achievement? >> no. either do i. medicare should not be used as a piggy bank for obamacare, medicare for our seniors, end of story. >> perhaps the conversation should start there, the seniors, there will be no changes to your medicare plan, as you pointed out. its those 54 younger that should begin to ...