Mass blackouts after China cuts Australian coal imports

UK Times of London ^

[ameribbean expat]

Enjoy the dark, commies.

[Obadiah]

Well that ought to teach the Aussies!

[ConservativeMind]

Excellent news! Keep screwing yourself, China.

[pabianice]

screw them and the coalDemons they rode in on.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Isn’t that about 38 degrees Farenheight?

[allendale]

Two years into Biden’s green new deal energy policies, blackouts will become a way of life in America. Bad times ahead.

[glorgau]

This a classic “cutting off your nose to spite your face” move.

[Texas Eagle]

Coming to a country near you soon.

If Joe Tse Dung wins.

[Salamander]

Yeah, but they can always just throw on another dog....oh, wait...

[existentially_kuffer]

Communism, worker’s rejoice!

[PGalt]

CCP = dark ideology

[Bonemaker]

“...blackouts will become a way of life in America..”

California the model.

[mrsmith]

My question is why didn’t they get the coal elsewhere then?

No money?
No profitable industry that needs it?
Reinforcement of subjects control?

[ealgeone]

wait...I thought the chicoms were all about reducing carbon emissions?!

[Chickensoup]

I suspect this will be true

[Grampa Dave]

Coming to a country near you soon.

If Joe Tse Dung wins.

The illegals may go back to Mexico and South America when that happens!

[Texas Eagle]

I don't know about that. We're still going to need somebody to pick our lettuce and clean our hotel rooms.

Am I right, John McCain? Up high!

Errrrr.....down low?

[Robert357]

First, unless they are really old street lights, you can't “dim” the lights. What folks do in emergency curtailment is either turn off every other one or some fraction of the street lights. So that part of the story looks like it may border on fake news.

Second, having visited China just a couple years ago, I can tell you that they have a middle class that like to drive new single occupancy cars, wear stylish western clothes, and have the latest electronics and cell phones. There is real rural poverty and even urban poverty. China has a tiger on their hands, they have a population that is use to massive growth in the economy and their way of life and if that growth curve ever stops, they will have an angry population that has been taught that revolution is a good and glorious thing.

When I was there there were police and soldiers everywhere along with surveillance cameras covering even alleys and pedestrian only areas. Big Brother make sure I could not use anything Google (no Google translate, no Google search, no Google maps, no G-mail, etc.)

The CCP is holding onto power by harsh dictatorial rule and the people seem to put up with it only because their standard of living is improving so much. Once that goes, then it could be civil unrest.

[piasa]

Good question since Indonesia has lots of coal if I recall correctly from Clinton’s Riady deal days.

[RomanSoldier19]

Practicing for night raids