Posted on 08/03/2022 5:54:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PARIS (AP) — Fanning out like urban guerrillas through Paris’ darkened streets well after midnight, the anti-waste activists shinny up walls and drain pipes, reaching for switches to turn off the lights.
Click. Click. Click.
One by one, the outdoor lights that stores had left on are extinguished. It’s one small but symbolic step in a giant leap of energy saving that Europe is trying to make as it rushes to wean itself off natural gas and oil from Russia so factories aren’t forced to close and homes stay heated and powered.
The stakes are high. If Russia severs the supplies of gas it has already drastically reduced, authorities fear Europe risks becoming a colder, darker and less-productive place this winter. It’s imperative to economize gas now so it can be squirreled away for burning later in homes, factories and power plants, officials say.
And although Europe is scrambling to get energy from elsewhere, any difficulties this winter could be a harbinger of worse to come if Russian gas supplies are completely severed and stay off through 2023, said France’s minister overseeing energy, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
“If gas deliveries are cut by the end of the year, that will mean we’ll have a full year without Russian gas, so the following winter could be even harder,” Pannier-Runacher told French senators.
Hence the mounting appeals — already familiar to exasperated parents of wasteful teenagers everywhere — for Europeans to take shorter showers, switch off power sockets and otherwise do what they can.
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Iran could block the strait of Hormuz...
More of the best way to ultimately get rid of enviro whacko policies is to strictly enforce them, to paraphrase someone who might not be the most popular historic figure here, but still worth considering that idea.
Frankly, I cannot shed a tear if millions die as a result.
They voted for this.
I’d tell them to go back to gas lights, or oil lamps, but no, that won’t work either. They’re screwed.
I have got my own energy problem...it’s called Biden.
Meanwhile, the heat on my 16 year old dryer went out. Can anyone tell me if it will still sort of dry clothes by air as it tumbles while I go figure out what inflation overpriced dryer to get. I am not pulling out the dryer and checking thermal switch yada yada yada. Cramped space. Just going to get a new one.
” If Russia severs the supplies of gas it has already drastically reduced, authorities fear Europe risks becoming a colder, darker and less-productive place this winter”
thats sugar-coating it.......Europe risks freezing to death!
Yeah, they’ll adapt without wholesale energy — but MILLIONS will die until it stabilizes and adapts to the new reality!
Think of it as a learning experience.
Have they no wind mills? Solar panels?
“the best way to ultimately get rid of enviro whacko policies is to strictly enforce them”
Yep. Just like the illegals.....shipping ‘em to D.C. and lettin’ the libs feel the pain is a brilliant move many here on FR had been calling for way before gov Abbott decided to do it.
They wanted it....they got it. Now suck on it.
"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." -- Viscount Grey at the start of WWI
Just put on more cloths.....boy are they spoiled.
“More of the best way to ultimately get rid of enviro whacko policies is to strictly enforce them, to paraphrase someone who might not be the most popular historic figure here, but still worth considering that idea.”
I couldn’t agree more. People around the world have been so steeped in the enviro movement that the only way to have even a small chance of reaching them is give them exactly what they want.
Iran could block the strait of Hormuz.
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Didn’t they try that once?
I’ve said it many times...before this is over...Germany and the EU will be begging Russia to open Nord Stream I & II
So global warming will become a good thing four months of the year - my heart flutters at what Greta will think of this.
What does this mean? They are dropping power to these buildings? None of these buildings have perishable items stored in freezers/coolers? So the saying 'freezing in the dark' is morphing into 'freezing AND starving in the dark'. People are too stupid today to get out of their own way.
Cue Journey:
When the lights go down in the city.,.
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