The goal of most of Europe (including the UK) was to make Greta Thunberg happy. The goal of the United States was to make Al Gore happy.
Europe and the United States are now in an energy crisis. So I suppose Greta and Al are both happy. Is anybody else happy?
Thanks Joe.
The Budenstang or whatever Germany calls their Parliament vote three to one AGAINST sending any more weapons to Ukraine.
They are starting to wake up there and are figuring out that their real enemy is to the West (the guys who bombed their energy lifeline), not to the East, but it’s probably too late.
This is what I’ve been saying too. It’s simple math. The oil and LNG need to flow at a certain rate to allow businesses to continue manufacturing.
From what I read, if it’s correct, the Polish LNG pipeline has a 10 BT capacity while the Nord Stream 1&2 had a 105 BT capacity. Math tells us the priority will be for keeping people alive; not manufacturing. It takes a lot of LNG to make fertilizer so none of that.
Ergo the EU will be plunged into a pre-industrial age unless other means can be found to deliver the needed oil and LNG products. I’m guessing trains and ships will be used. Both add risk to transporting over the pipeline method. We learned that with the Keystone pipeline Bumblin’ Xiden cancelled so trains must be used instead. Stupid and unnecessary but it was always about who stood to make the most money; not what was safest and best for the environment.
It’s almost like the goal is to kill off all the white people... oh gosh. You don’t think.............
What would Kondratiev do?
This has been happening for years. Britain became a ‘service industry’ years ago when I lived there. And brought in foreigners to the factories years before that.
And the Yurps still haven’t shaken off their irresistible urge to bow down and sacrifice to Gaia.
It was like pulling teeth to get Britain to lift the ban on fracking.
The Germans agreed to not shut down their last 3 remaining nuclear power plants immediately. Instead they’ve planned that for a few months from now.
Nobody is mining coal. Nobody in Europe is fracking. No new nuclear power plants are being built. They have the technology to generate the energy they need. They just don’t want to - even though they know their economies and their standards of living are staring into the abyss.
I guess they just haven’t felt enough pain yet.
they promise the jetsons
you get the flintstones
The simple fact is that economies run on cheap energy, and when the Neocons blew up those pipelines, they consigned Europe to a third world economic status. When they finally wake up and see what the US lead them into they will not be happy. They should have listened to Henry Kissinger who once said: “To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be its friend is fatal.” They are about to find out exactly what that means.
I don’t know who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline, but overall the Europeans have put themselves in this predicament. It’s going to be a rough winter.
