Posted on 03/31/2022 12:10:59 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
Essay by Eric Worrall
As Germany braces for extreme economic and social hardship, it is worth reflecting on the misery the empty promises of green energy advocates have delivered.
Germany girds for gas rationing, Europe on edge in Russian standoffBy Joseph Nasr and Vera Eckert
* Europe fears Moscow will turn off gas supplies
* Kremlin says rouble payments a good idea for other commodities
* Kremlin says it will not immediately demand roubles for gas
* Economic standoff raises risk of recession in EuropeBERLIN/FRANKFURT, March 30 (Reuters) – Germany triggered an emergency plan to manage gas supplies on Wednesday under which Europe’s largest economy could ration power if a standoff over a Russian demand to pay for fuel with roubles disrupts or halts supplies.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz by phone on Wednesday that nothing would change for European partners and payments would still be made in euros and transferred to Gazprom bank, a German spokesperson said. read more
Separately, Putin outlined the rouble plan in a phone call with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Draghi’s office said.
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INDUSTRY FIRST IN LINE FOR CUTS
Berlin’s unprecedented move is the clearest sign yet that the European Union is preparing for Moscow to cut gas supplies unless it gets payment in roubles. Italy and Latvia have already activated warnings.
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck implemented the “early warning phase” of an existing gas emergency plan, where a crisis team from the economics ministry, the regulator and the private sector will monitor imports and storage.
Habeck told reporters Germany’s gas supplies were guaranteed for now but urged consumers and companies to reduce consumption, saying that “every kilowatt hour counts”.
If supplies fall short, Germany’s network regulator can ration gas, with industry first in line for cuts and preferential treatment for private households, hospitals and other critical institutions.
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Who feels like opening a new business in Germany? When will the wind mills deliver the abundance and low costs green advocates keep promising?
Who still believes renewables are “cheaper than coal”?
It could all have been so different. If Europe had embraced nuclear power and fracking, they could have laughed off Putin’s gas supply threats.
I would like to report that Europe has woken from its delusions, but despite my early hopes, the messages are mixed. Politicians still haven’t got the balls to admit they were wrong. There has been some recommissioning of coal, but not nearly enough. The public line is any recommissioning of fossil fuel infrastructure is temporary.
Wake up Germany and Europe. You have a few short months of Summer to figure out how you will survive the coming energy supply crash. The one chance your politicians have to redeem themselves for decades of policy failures is to make this right. Because if that Russian gas supply goes down in winter, and you are still unprepared, some of your people freeze to death.
I guess that "we won't demand Rubles for Gas" didn't last very long.
Germany used to have a lot of nuclear power plants, but they bowed to the anti-nuclear fearmongers after Fukushima. Now they’re dependent on the Mexico of Europe, and El Presidentsky is threatening to use nukes. How’s that working out, idiots?
Biden’s thugs will force our companies to sell to cheap to anyone in the world. Biden’s ‘solutions’ are nightmares.
Biden’s thugs will force our oil companies to sell oil cheap to anyone in the world. Biden’s ‘solutions’ are nightmares.
HUH? Butt, grrrrrrreta agenda............ CLIMAGEDDON!!!
From a short book called “The Revolution Was” regarding FDR and the New Deal. We saw this with Obama, and now Biden:
“Having passed this crisis, the New Deal went on from one problem to another, taking them in the proper order, according to revolutionary technic; and if the handling of one was inconsistent with the handling of another, even to the point of nullity, that was blunder in reverse. The effect was to keep people excited about one thing at a time, and divided, while steadily through all the uproar of outrage and confusion a certain end, held constantly in view, was pursued by main intention.
The end held constantly in view was power.”
Angela Merkel and the CDU Party in Germany are solely to blame for this fiasco. Any casual observer who had a passing understanding of the geopolitical landscape and energy supply in Europe could have and in fact did, predict this outcome years ago. Frau Merkel should be publicly humiliated and ideally, brought before the German court system on charges of treason for collaborating with the enemy. Unfortunately, this will not come to pass as the culprits in these matters are never held to account.
Angela Merkel’s legacy.
Sorry, but this “idiot” here has no influence over the decisions of the tyrants who rule his country at the behest of our globalist overlords.
If this “idiot” had had his way, this knee-jerk reaction wouldn’t have been carried out.
No offence meant.
They voted for Merkle…
I was totally unaware of this man - thanks for alerting me to him. I’ll bet Alinsky read him. Alinsky’s organization was always in flux and somewhat chaotic... people stayed with what worked and quickly dumped what didn’t - but everything was worth a try... And yeah like you say - the end view was power.
https://mises.org/library/garet-garretts-revolution-was
from link:
Garet Garrett was among the most important figures from the literary, political, and laissez-faire economic traditions of the Old Right, but his name is hardly known today. In 1938 he penned “The Revolution Was,” a remarkable essay about FDR’s revolutionary New Deal and, more importantly, how it was accomplished. FDR’s revolution had already happened, though few Americans understood it or grasped what the triumph of an administrative state would mean.
Biden (I can’t call him “President”) is taking US down the same path.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
Above is the link to the FR post where I first saw the booklet (entire thing is posted) years ago. It is a very interesting read. Lots of the stuff that FDR said was very similar to what Obama was saying years ago.
I try not to listen to Old Joe.
<>The end held constantly in view was power.<>
Same with Orwell’s 1984.
Same with Bammy.
Same with Brandon.
“It could all have been so different. If Europe had embraced nuclear power and fracking, they could have laughed off Putin’s gas supply threats.”
Also, they could have just not pushed this NATO into Ukraine project and not killed Nordstream 2. Then Germany would just be a customer, buying from a supplier at the lowest cost. They could have not cut off all Russian banking.
They act like Putin one day, for reasons nobody understands, threatens their supply.
Very childish to do all this chest bumping, then support a nuclear bomb of sanctions, then act offended when someone responds in kind.
yes, he is taking us down the same path, and we see with our own eyes with Europe as an example where it is leading and are still going along for the ride.
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