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Facing an energy crisis, Germans stock up on candles Planet Money
NPR ^ | December 20, 2022 - 6:31 AM ET | WILLA RUBIN

Posted on 12/21/2022 10:44:16 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Ellendra
Hobo stove, rocket stove version.


21 posted on 12/21/2022 11:17:02 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: Ellendra

People will be stealing candles out of churches to heat their borscht...


22 posted on 12/21/2022 11:17:20 AM PST by bigbob (z)
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To: Red Badger

Gore and Kerry should be hanged.


23 posted on 12/21/2022 11:22:32 AM PST by boomop1 (term limits NOW)
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To: Red Badger

I suspect that before long the pipeline to Poland will get blown up and then what will Eurotrash do?


24 posted on 12/21/2022 11:27:33 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat)
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To: Sacajaweau

Go to woods and collect wood. That is illegal in most of the EU. The woods are the property of the greens and nobody can steal from the fungi and white mold.


25 posted on 12/21/2022 11:29:04 AM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: Red Badger

Badger, I lived in Germany for four years. Trying to use solar power is a joke, too cloudy as I recall.


26 posted on 12/21/2022 11:35:31 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It! lol)
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To: Night Hides Not

I’ve been there, too.

Sun is low in the sky, also................


27 posted on 12/21/2022 11:37:46 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Sacajaweau

This puzzled me, too. Candles can get pretty expensive, when you can buy such good battery LED lanterns for cheap now.


28 posted on 12/21/2022 11:39:43 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

NPR. Almost completely ignored the desperate use of wood and wholesale use of low efficiency brown coal to make up for the energy shortfall. Didn’t bother to mention aluminum plants shut down, probably for good. German gas reserves are down to 86%, not “near 100%”. And winter has just begun.


29 posted on 12/21/2022 11:48:21 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative )
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To: Red Badger

Hoe can they be having an energy crisis.

US energy exports to the EU are through the roof...


30 posted on 12/21/2022 11:49:28 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: mewzilla

One ship load at time will not be adequate to replace the pipelines from Russia. The port facilities could not handle the load necessary to stave off energy rationing in Europe.............


31 posted on 12/21/2022 11:51:26 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

History is going to look back at these times and wonder how so many national leaders went insane at the same time.

Man made climate change is a scam, yet every western nation is going out of their way to destroy all the progress made since the beginning of the industrial revolution in the name of this scam.

They are willing to have their citizen starve to death in the cold in the name of that scam.

The link is to how the Grand Canyon was created.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaxaE7tcwu4&t=1767s

The earth is billions of years old and have undergone millions of changes. Nothing that man has done in the past 200 years comes near what has gone before.


32 posted on 12/21/2022 11:57:16 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Red Badger
Germany is now on a mission to transform its energy economy and reduce its gas consumption. The nation is making real progress on that front.

Yeah, real progress, sure. Well, they are reducing consumption with no replacement.

33 posted on 12/21/2022 11:58:55 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: NewHampshireDuo

Yeah, they have the ‘Doing without’ part down pat................


34 posted on 12/21/2022 11:59:37 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Jamestown1630; Sacajaweau

Candles also produce heat and are pleasant for many, they can be used under sinks, for backups in case of running out of batteries and they don’t have a shelf life.

I have my blackout lighting needs met but also keep candles.

Some people may even be using this as an excuse to stock up or splurge on candles that they wanted to buy anyway.


35 posted on 12/21/2022 12:09:53 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: DesertRhino

Fischkaupf for the northerners.

“Germans are increasingly turning to solar energy”

Idiocy. Anyone who has lived through a northern European winter knows this is just stupid. There will be weeks without a break in the cloud cover and no wind. This green farce is such a fraud. And what another government maff program where candles are sold that take multiple times the energy to make as they produce.


36 posted on 12/21/2022 12:12:16 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Modernists do not learn from history.

Therefore, they are bound to repeat it.

The New Dark Ages are upon us.


37 posted on 12/21/2022 12:12:22 PM PST by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: dfwgator

Blockhead, squarehead, goon, Heinie, kraut, boche, hun, Jerry, Fritz


38 posted on 12/21/2022 12:31:39 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Jamestown1630
Candles can get pretty expensive, when you can buy such good battery LED lanterns for cheap now.

You have to charge the LED lanterns somehow. Plus they don't do much good when you are freezing to death. At least you can huddle around a burning candle.

39 posted on 12/21/2022 12:34:09 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: Organic Panic

” There will be weeks without a break in the cloud cover and no wind.”

This


40 posted on 12/21/2022 12:38:03 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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