There is no capacity in the US to ship to Germany. There is no gas elsewhere. Germany is forked.
“There is no capacity in the US to ship to Germany. There is no gas elsewhere. Germany is forked.”
Well, then coal it is! Good news is, coal is so abundant, is there will be plenty of energy left over to power all of the green vehicles.
Actually, we ARE shipping a lot of LNG to Europe, and it has driven up gas prices here. Adding up Euro reserves, available non-Russian imports, and (admittedly foolishly undeveloped) internal ongoing sources, data is incomplete but Germany looks to get by “uncomfortably.” I expect at least some rolling blackouts, but I can’t see any need for lengthy blackouts. As someone who was in the bullseye of the monster 2009 US MidSouth ice storm and the cold spell that followed (note that some people didn’t get power back for 3 full weeks, and ours was intermittent for most of that), I am pretty comfortable in predicting very few deaths in Germany if the power and gas grid is managed with even modest competence.
Of course, the German economy will certainly take a hit, but, even if their GDP drops by 10% for 2022, they are still hugely wealthy.
Riddle us this: Do you support the idea that US should have not bothered with direct energy sanctions (not that ours matter much compared to the Euros’) and instead should have gone on an urgent wartime footing to increase both national and global gas supply? Invest, say, the 1/2 trillion dollars likely to go into student loan relief?
Looks like the Germans will need to get some electric space heaters and hope its a sunny and windy winter in the Fatherland this coming season.....
When it is all about Oil&GAS and ENERGY, listen to Joe and Greta, then stand on the precipice and jump.
“There is no capacity in the US to ship to Germany“
Exactly.