Posted on 08/08/2022 5:48:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The hard reality is that Germany is never going to be able to conserve its way out of this.
Nor are Wind and Solar ever going to be able to produce nearly enough energy to meet their needs.
That leaves Coal, Oil, Natural Gas (wherever they can find it) and Nuclear. There are no other choices.
Choose.....and no, I don’t care how much you don’t want to.
The other hard reality is that Putinist Russia will never be a reliable source of energy and Europe needs to move away from that risky partnership.
They’ll have to send in UN Peacekeepers to control the people.
life imitating art imitating life... it is not only going to be a long hot summer, but the cities will burn into the winter.
people can survive 3 seconds without thinking. 3 minutes without breathing. 3 hours without shelter. 3 days without water. 3 weeks without food. 3 months without company. 3 years without love. 3 decades without colonoscopy.
“powder keg for society.”
In this country it’s called the democrat party.
People in media see themselves as celebrities. That puts them into the elites. They get invited to parties and fly first class. If ordinary people (“folks”) have to wear a couple of sweaters and huddle to keep warm, that is fine with elites. If ordinary people try to express their discontent with their circumstances, they are extremists. The wording is chosen very deliberately in order to justify cracking down on the first few that speak out so as to cow the rest. The elites don’t want extremists to backlash.
“Extremist”. There’s that word again.
So in Germany wanting to be able to heat your home, cook your food, or run your factory using natural gas at reasonable prices makes one an “extremist”.
Get ready for that word to be used in that context here very soon.
“Energy extremists” will be everywhere.
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“Hmmm... Germany facing “social unrest.” That doesn’t tend to end well...”
Just wait until a charismatic, young brilliant orator from Bavaria arrives on the scene!
That has nothing to do with being reliable, you just can’t fight Russia on one hand and then expect them to be generous and supply you with what you need. I have a hunch that sooner or later Russia will persevere anyway in spite of the west trying to prolong the conflict for as long as possible, primarily encouraged by a war mongering bunch of idiots in the US administration who realize that the next elections may not be in their favor and what better way than to get involved in a war. Aside all that in my humble opinion, which doesn’t mean much to begin with, I feel in case of the Ukraine conflict that Russia is more right than wrong.
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The German people have no one to blame but themselves. They are the ones who put in power the politicians who favored this... and they knew it.
Don’t feel a bit sorry. Enjoy your green unicorns!
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