Europe faces massive fuel shortages this winter due to hasty retreat from coal. (gas price, suspect)

[burdell]

Originally Posted by Oklazona Bound

My feeling is all this green new deal crap if it happens it will cripple our energy production just has Europe. They were bent on stopping fossil fuels regardless if they had any plan to actually replace them.

Uh, then WHY are they using natural gas which is a fossil fuel?

[itsjustmeagain]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

Filed under "when governments are in charge"

Right, because a failed state would be so much better.

[itsjustmeagain]

Originally Posted by burdell

Uh, then WHY are they using natural gas which is a fossil fuel?

Natural Gas is just a bridge technology until the Europeans can get all their energy from renewable energy sources.

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by Kracer

Green energy zealots are the guys who jump from a plane before putting on their parachutes, of course they want you to jump first.

Biden set Putin up to reap countless billions in the euro market.

Good thing Putin is not our enemy.... or so said to Mitt by Obama

zhoe is putin's obedient poodle.

[Lillie767]

With all the goings on in Washington, it's hard to believe the planet doesn't have enough hot air blowing around.

[bus man]

Ah, the "wisdom" of the European governing elites. First, dismantle coal and nuclear, the two sources that are the most reliable and provide you with some degree of energy independence. Then, devote yourselves to sources that are unreliable and unable to meet more than a portion of your total demand, like wind and solar. As a backup, shackle yourself to a fickle, sometimes hostile supplier (i.e. Russia) to make up your energy shortfalls. Then, when the inevitable shortages hit, demand more money to build more unreliable sources. And be sure you ensnare yourself in economically suicidal usage targets, such as the Paris Climate Accords.

As sad as this is, what's even worse (from our perspective) is that under Biden, we're following the same shortsighted, doomed-to-fail strategy.

[sholomar]

I never understood the mentality of exporting the problem.... Curtail domestic oil production then tell the Saudis to ramp up theirs all while requests for more pipelines get denied....

[Floorist]

I drive through a field of wind turbines to see my doctor. They are on both sides of the highway. Usually, about 1/2 of them are not turning. Don't know if they are broken, or just not enough wind.
We have oil under the ground here. About 5 years ago they pulled all the pumps and capped the wells. No idea why. The pumps were running constantly before they pulled them. I drove past them every morning.
There is also a bio fuel plant a few miles from here, but I think it closed too.

[cdnirene]

Americans aren't just blocking Canadian oil pipelines, now they're fighting Hydro-Quebec's clean power lines.
Renewable energy powerhouse's plan to light up U.S. northeast encounters opposition from local groups, fossil fuel rivals:

https://financialpost.com/commoditie...il-fuel-rivals

[Nevar242]

good let the tree huggers get cold.
Energy is out there.