If Russia turns off gas, rationing from Jan says think tank

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 2 - If Russia turns off gas to Italy there will be rationing from January, a top Italian think tank said Friday.
    "If Russia turned off the gas tap today, with stocks at 83%, at the start of January we will be forced to ration consumption," Davide Tabarelli, president of Nomisma Energia, told ANSA.
    "But it would be a good thing to start even earlier, so as not to have to heavily cut gas in the coldest months," he said.
    "This winter we still won't have the two new regassification terminals at Piombino and Ravenna, if things go well they will arrive in May.
    "We have increase non-Russian imports, around 17 billion cubic metres more, but that's not enough to replace the 29 billion we used to buy from Moscow". (ANSA).