Posted on 08/11/2022 6:27:20 PM PDT by JonPreston
The UK government is planning for a worst-case scenario this winter that could involve planned blackouts, Bloomberg reported.
Cold weather could combine with natural gas shortages as the European energy crisis intensifies.
UK natural gas prices have soared over 130% year-to-date as Western sanctions on Russia lead to shortages.
UK natural gas prices have surged 130% this year, compared with a rise of 200% in benchmark European prices so. Benchmark power prices on the continent have hit record highs, rising by almost 300% since the start of 2022.
"Rationing can't be ruled out in the colder months. This will impact everyone, but especially energy intensive industries like car makers, chemical companies and cryptocurrency mining," Simon Tucker, global head of energy, utilities and resources at Infosys Consulting, said.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Get those windmills going!
Better to prepare for higher energy prices than to suck up to a nazi dictator like Putin whose 22 year regime has ruined Russia and attacked its neighbours over and over ag.
When are you guys going to reject your dictator Putin?
Pray for peace, and heat.
They need more wind turbines and solar PV arrays to help this problem. LOL!
Burn old tires for steam.
I like that the Russian invasion is paying off by forcing Europe to adopt some of what Trump and conservatives have been pushing on them for years.
A little suffering from their dependency on Russia is going to be good for them in the long run.
This fallout from the invasion of Ukraine is helping NATO and America a lot, by Europeans suffering for their connections to and having relied on Russia, yet not having to endure their own countries being invaded to learn these lessons.
This isn’t just about Russia, it should help with their internal politics and dealing with the environmental left as well.
NATO is hardening up, increasing NATO spending, and increasing membership, which should end Russia’s dreams of empire building for decades.
Henry Hub is at 8.69 - that's roughly 85-90 cents a therm for us end consumers in the US.
Ouch.
Let me guess. The “cold weather” Europe may experience will be the result of climate change.
It’s a cult.
I’ll bet our resident neoconneds smooth out those energy worry wrinkles with an 4 pound sledge hammer...
TV off the air at 10:30 part of the time I was stationed there 1973-1976.
Dang. I was just about to get into cryptocurrency mining.
which should end Russia’s dreams of empire building for decades.
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Fact is Russia has been around much longer than the US, and will still be around when the US is not.
Another emotional post.
Just put on a sweater.
Jimmy Carter
Those dystopian science fiction movies were too optimistic.
Soon: Biden Energy Bars are people.
To be fair, Soylent Green did show Edward G. Robinson as a sickly old man having to pedal a cycle to get a generator going to electricity.
The Russians who lived through the '90s and the Yeltsin years might disagree with you.
After one of Jimmy’s conserve energy speeches, some genius penguin at our high skrool realized how much energy could be saved by shutting off the power main while we were on Christmas or spring break. Seeing as how there weren’t any people what could it hurt?
We came back a week or so late to the still strong stench of rotting meat that was in all the freezers.
This is why I came up with my own power grid.
California can’t provide for its citizens anymore, so we have
to fend for ourselves.
>>When are you guys going to reject your dictator Putin?<<
About the same time that Americans are going to reject their corrupt clown Biden and re-install a real president.
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