You see, while retailers are getting ripped off, they're also dependent on the very mechanism that fuels the phenomenon.

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You have countries, like Finland and Slovakia, that are entirely dependent on Russian gas not only paying two very different prices, but also paying less than many countries, like Poland, that get barely 50% of their gas from Russia.

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