Posted on 10/06/2022 2:10:38 AM PDT by Cathi
German deindustrialization, transitioning to service based economy
The Duran: Episode 1399
I don’t know if they’re still around, but they had produced some excellently engineered products.
I’m of the belief that most of the European Alpha males died in the wars, and beta simps were what remained.
So now you have wind and solar power, and have women with bigger balls than the dudes...it’s sad.
LNG is about 5 times the cost of cheap plentiful pipeline gas. At least until Poland and the CIA blow up the pipeline!
You forgot firewood, and peat. Lol
Lol.. I’m stealing that.
“I don’t know if they’re still around, but they had produced some excellently engineered products.”
Very true, I have some electrical tools from Knipix - best that I’ve ever used.
Germany’s burgeoning muslim workforce will transition well to a service based economy. Look how many German women got serviced in Cologne and Hamburg on New Year’s Eve back in 2015/2016.
The analogy is apt. Germany toed the Biden-Blinken line as regards "sanctions" -- which included banking theft -- and the cried that their "supplier" was untrustworthy. This is in the style of the US Democrats and RINOs who believe that words and perception may obscure grievous errors. Germany is not Scholz, and America is not Biden, in the long term. But in the short term they are fools steering the ships of state into the shoals.
On another note, I observe that during the Covid threads, a certain number of participants were very active and are not as regards the Ukraine "event." The inverse seems equally evident. It is interesting to me that certain FR voices seem to not have a very broad interest in the world. Almost as if they, as supposedly conservative, are merely "on issue" activists. Odd?
Oddly enough, the really big use if firewod came in as one of the “sustainable” technologies the Germans were paying big bucks for. This was long before the Ukraine war.
Thats why Germany has been importing shiploads of wood chips from the US, Russia, Belarus, etc. Very ironic. How that is somehow better than coal I do not understand.
Anyway, German silliness is meeting reality now. Other countries were looking at Germany and shaking their heads decades ago.
LOL. You go right ahead. I can’t claim any proprietary ownership of it, as I seem to remember another Freeper posting something similar a few years ago when that nitwit was all over the news.
At the point where more than a third of your natural gas requirements were from a potential ‘shaky’ country...you should have diversified your situation. That was the one misstep of Germany’s strategic vision.
You could add the issue where nuke/coal energy was shown the exit-door, and the only make-up source for wind/solar...was natural gas-run energy plants.
Presently, I’d say survival of more than half the country’s business operations....even the local pizzeria in my neighborhood, has become questionable. To suggest that a 8-Euro pizza is going to 18-Euro because of the electrical increases, isn’t going to be accepted. Same issue with a theater ticket possibly being double, or a corner pub having a entry charge of 7-Euro to sit in a marginally heated place.
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Peat is actually a fine energy source, under the right circumstances. There are quite a few peat fired power gen projects in Africa, surprisingly. I dont think anyone has had the gall to call them “sustainable” yet, but who knows. But if you have coal, why bother with peat?
Don’t do it. You will be China’s bitch like us....
Which is what every US government has said to Germany, going back decades.
Worth repeating.
Fixed it.
“You can go back and blame ‘ostpolitic’ over the past fifty years and the various parties (left and right) that got deep into Russian natural gas sales. They all contributed to this moment, and there is no way out...other than massive fracking (nearly impossible to get them to realize this).”
How many elite hack politicians got large bribes from Moscow? To build gaz pipelines. To get addicted to cheap Russian gaz that Germany only paid the equivalent of $20/barrel of oil?
Gerhard Scroeder was the most prominent hack/traitor who earned tens of millions getting Germany addicted to Putin gaz
Next up - the “Blanket Brigade” Service Company- they will come to your home and huddle under a blanket with you this Winter - but you gotta supply your own blanket😎
I’m almost sure firewood is super polluting, among the worst. Jordan Peterson has a talk where he discussed energy prices. He explained how the third world cooks over wood when gas is simply too expensive. He goes into great detail about the health and environmental impacts. His conclusion is that if you want clean air, you encourage the third world (us soon?) you encourage gas use.
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