Posted on 07/30/2022 8:41:03 AM PDT by rktman
European Union policymakers have started to prepare the public for siege conditions this winter if gas supplies from Russia are completely cut, an effort to demonstrate diplomatic resolve as well as avoid panic later in the year.
In recent weeks, officials from Germany and other EU member states have begun to talk openly and urgently about the need for immediate reductions in consumption in advance of the peak winter heating season.
They have also started to plan publicly for compulsory allocation, including rationing and prioritization among industrial users, as well as sharing among member states in the event there is not enough gas to supply everyone.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
There seems to be a lot of nascent desire for a world war among posters here. Why?
No need for a broader war, at the current rate Ukraine will have destroyed the Russian armed forces by winter.
You forgot to mention that all across America in our gas producing areas men will be saying to the wife and kids "here is the new car I promised you honey, and I got the kids everything on their Santa lists except for those tablets and phones, I don't want the kids watching liberal crap on Youtube. I got them their first guns instead."
I do not lust for WW III, I am just trying to tamper the enthusiasm of the neocon Freepers’ dreams of empire through war.
This is Build Back Better. Enjoy!
Just one? 🤔😅✌
Well no - while America has plenty of product, a surplus of natural gas, export is a different matter entirely. One, it has to be compressed and liquefied on our end, and then the same in reverse on their end. This requires special facilities that we don’t have. Not enough anyway, and they don’t either. In between, requires these absolutely humongous natural gas tankers that are not plentiful. And frankly, a sitting duck for a drone strike or missile, frankly.
Who is going to insure a huge natural gas tanker crossing the ocean during a war?
It’s all very inefficient and laborious expensive compared to what they had with with direct Russian pipelines, even if it were possible.
Well it is a matter of degree ... lol
Thanks for the link. I was not aware of all this bullshite coming from the WH. Though...I don’t think it had much to do with Biden.
Instead of just filling up tanks with LNG they had to develop an entire ecosystem of factories, trucks, cranes, containers, packaging, and management systems to be able to deliver just about everything you see in a modern American store. Computers, air conditioners, tools, toasters, and so on.
How on earth did they figure it all out? How did the get insurance for the ships? Where did those big cranes that unload the ships come from?
We're just doomed. We could never figure out how to ship some liquified natural gas to Europe. Maybe the Chinese could help us out?
Just cuddle up next to one of those glorious windmills.... The Germans will be proud of their own misery.
No doubt Amazon could do it with tomorrow delivery if ordered in the next hour and twelve minutes......😊🙌🌍
I lived in Germany for 4 years, and winters were always cold. All my radiators did was keep the ice off the windows.
I think these fears are overblown.
Pay attention to what I wrote - not what you think I wrote.
The LNG facilities to do what you suggest, they don’t exist. They are not going to magically appear in the next month or two.
If you think that is “defeatist” I don’t know what to tell you. It’s a matter of logistics, and the numbers don’t scale. Europe uses a LOT of natural gas.
Shipping from the United States is under war attack?
Let them chop wood.
And murder trees? Are you 😵?
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