Posted on 09/29/2022 2:27:59 AM PDT by ransomnote
[H/T Farcesensitive]
Germany’s food producers are warning that rising energy prices may soon force them to shut their doors.
The German Frozen Food Institute and the Association of German Cold Storage and Logistics Companies recently released an open letter to the public, in which they stated, “There are significant supply gaps in the daily food supply for people in Germany. The situation is more than serious.”
It went on, “Companies now fear that production lines will soon come to a standstill and that refrigerated logistics centers for food distribution will be closed. Some are even preparing for possible insolvency.”
The letter was signed by five other industry groups, and was addressed to Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck and Federal Minister for Food Cem Ozdemir.
MORE AT LINK: German Food Producers Warn Energy Prices Will Force Them To Close
Germans can eat dirt for all I care
More food shortages?
Would it help if we blew up another pipeline?
Without German industrial and economic power, the EU is irrelevant. The German fall will drag the rest of Europe with it which is already economically imploding.
This is what happens when you let unserious people like Greens drive policy for a couple decades.
The EU
Russia
China
The US
Things are falling apart all over.
I’m not sure how strong and stable India is right now, but I get the feeling that, of the major powers, they may be least at risk at this point.
All economic activity requires energy consumption. In fact, money is just an abstract representation of energy. Spending money is the same as consuming energy, and causing pollution. You can accurately estimate anything's carbon footprint simply by looking at its price. No energy means no economy.
Germany hung their economy by a single thread that can be severed by anyone, including their own greentards. Further, their primary supplier is hostile to Germany and deeply hates them. How incredibly stupid is that? It's not the first time Germany committed economic suicide.
spare a thought for us Aussies. despite all that’s going on in EU and elsewhere as far as the “energy crisis” is concerned, our own suicide notes were written today.
and, after the FakeNewsMSM spent years saying “renewable energy” is the cheapest, they are all suddenly singing a different song!
29 Sept: Australian Financial Review: AGL signals the end of coal. Now the hard work really begins
by Mark Ludlow, Queensland bureau chief
It’s official. The end of the line for coal-fired power in Australia is 2035.
Now the really hard work begins.
While even the most ardent supporter of fossil fuels knew the end was coming for coal as Australia started the slow march to net zero by 2050, this week’s announcements from AGL Energy (closing Loy Yang A early, in 2035) and the Queensland government (shutting down its fleet of coal plants within 13 years) brought the reality home...
It shapes as a monumental task for Australia – whose vast deposits of coal have been one of its competitive advantages – to transform its economy away from fossil fuels to a low-emissions economy.
At 3pm on Thursday, coal still accounted for 60 per cent of Australia’s power generation...
AGL has vowed to commit $20 billion to build 12 gigawatts of new firming capacity, while the Palaszczuk government now needs to commit $62 billion (half from the state’s taxpayers) to build 22 gigawatts of clean energy projects to fill the hole from the five state-owned coal-fired power plants being mothballed.
“The biggest challenge now is getting all this stuff built,” Wood told The Australian Financial Review.
“We are already well behind. We really need to get a wriggle on.”...
The latest reports from the Energy Security Board and the Australian Energy Regulator confirmed the costs of new wind, solar, batteries and transmission projects will ultimately be passed onto consumers who have already been hit with record high power prices this year...
Higher power prices are here to stay, for at least the next few years, even if renewable energy may drive down prices in the longer term...
Hold on for the ride.
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/agl-signals-the-end-of-coal-now-the-hard-work-really-begins-20220929-p5blyr
P.S. Queensland, last I heard, was currently using 78% coal.
P.P.S. of course, Australia will continue to sell tens of millions of tonnes of coal to China, Japan, etc etc etc for use in their present and soon-to-be-constructed coal-fired power plants.
We will end up eating dirt right alongside the Germans. Brandon is collapsing our food and food distribution chain, along with our economy and farming etc.
You are absolutely right. $ = btus kw etc. Even bitcoins are not green.
“We will end up eating dirt right alongside the Germans. Brandon is collapsing our food and food distribution chain, along with our economy and farming etc.”
Exactly right... This is an example of what will be coming to our own neigborhood next. Same policies, same cause and effect as an end.
When the Greens run the programs all you have left to eat is Soylent Green. In this case it will be raw as not energy to process or cook.
Agreed. The germans have a long history of stupidity and the modern day german people voted for government who put them into this position.
How could they be so stupid. And then laugh at Trump for stating the obvious truth.
A meme could be made from the horse movie. The German general asking the Brit cavalry commander how could you br be so stupid.
Yes, he is. This isn’t isolated to Germany.
“How could they be so stupid.”
Problem is they are not stupid, the powers that rule the world know exactly what they are doing. It is all geared towards a Great Culling. Laws and the justice system, environmental policy, economic policy, foreign policy, Energy policy, Health policy, Etc. All geared towards a mass culling of the human species.
And it is working...
The Roman emperor Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck, that he might cut it off.
And here we are, with a global political class composed of Caligulas.
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