The government is, IMHO, to blame for the gas supply situation that Germany is facing now. Of course it’s the German citizenry that does the suffering.
Guys this is easy! Just increase the reserves to 365%, then 1% a day works.... well until leap year..... mmmmmm maybe 365.25%. That will do it. 🤣
If only they listened to Trump, and also used more coal plants… if only.
If only there was some way to design natural gas systems to account for rare weather events. If only there was some way to hedge contracts. If only there was some way to properly manage risk. If only there was some way to build additional capacity.
If only...
https://www.euronews.com/2022/12/17/first-liquid-natural-gas-terminal-opened-in-germany
There is still a backlog of LNG tankers awaiting unloading in Germany. This should help. The main issue with LNG is the rate of unloading. Since there are another two terminals that should open this winter it should mitigate that a lot.
And this is a really big deal for next winter - when the gas problems are likely to really bite - This will be done by next August, or earlier, as its just a short hop over the Pyrenees from Hostalrich to Marseilles.
Spain has the biggest LNG facilities in Europe; with this plus some Franco-German pipeline work there should be no unloading backlog.
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: How can you expect a man who is warm to understand a man who is cold. That there is governments throughout the world.
Ach so. So traurig.
Oh and it’s.......”because wind and solar power have been on the scarce side over the past few weeks”......
Welcome to your “new world”, where everything is in short supply. As western governments lower their citizens’s expectations as to the availability of products and services, people will soon parrot phrases such as “Well bread has always been in short supply”, or “We have always had a shortage of heating oil, and our thermostat has been at 58 since I was a child. We are have to do our part, didn’t you learn that in grade school?”.
For a foreshadowing of where western nations are headed, including the U.S., go read old articles from the late 1980’s and early 1990s, and then on into current times regarding the shortages in Venezuela and the “weight loss” program which citizens of that country suddenly found themselves enrolled in involuntarily.
This is not going to end well for western nations, especially the U.S. For as the other countries start to fall, our government will push us further into debt as they start to try to convince taxpayers to be benevolent and send billions of dollars overseas. At some point, politicians are just going to abandon the country, and run to the bunker located on one of the islands in the middle of nowhere which they were told they have an interest in for “times such as this”.
As you can tell from the amount of money we are sending Ukraine, there is no limit as to how much we can print. At some point, people will have to recognize that fact. However, I suspect it will be too late at that point to save our country.
It is not going to be pretty.
I saw this coming during the spring so I hustled and installed a partial solar electric system and two woodstoves (I get the wood for free). Back then I knew for sure that the corrupt, leftist EU filthbags were going to choke the life out of its citizenry in the name of their self-enriching fraud called Climate Change. I was correct. Many, many folks here just cannot afford to pay their heating and utility bills now. I can't imagine how bad it's going to get in colder EU countries.
Unless the leftist/globalist/WEF-loving EU filth are made to cower in their homes, fearing for their lives, it's only going to get worse. A lot worse.
Oh no, Germany’s enemies are de energizing, de industrializing her and stripping away her military stockpile. Without ever declaring war on her
Not to worry...
Funny how the EU enemedia never see fit to mention that part, eh?
Or that our Deep State is refusing to limit exports.
The Germans are not freezing in the darkness enough. Gaia demands another sacrifice!
Time to ban the use of fertilizer too so the Germans can starve in addition to shivering in the darkness.
It is simply going to have to go on with this Gaia Worshiping insanity until the Germans have suffered enough and have had enough of it. The same is true in several other countries, but the Germans are among the very worst about it.