It is barely mentioned that Germany is in this position due to single purpose dedication to a climate agenda. After an insane amount of subsidies for renewables Germany still helped finance Russia’s invasion of Ukraine while littering their landscape with endless wind farms.
Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. Germany and Europe should have begun weaning off Russia energy then. But no, when it was suggested that they do so, Germany snickered.
As an aside there is a big bill coming due on the wind farms as well as they age out and become toxic trash. Will they be replaced? Some say not all. This will require more fossil fuels
Germanys energy policy can only be described as an abject failure due to the lack of balance on national, economic and environmental security.
For example, how many businesses will declare bankruptcy over the winter due to energy costs? How will skyrocketing energy prices impact the cost of goods and services provided by those businesses that can survive? How deep will Germanys recession be due to their self inflicted energy crisis?
What is even more bizarre is that the US is now following in their footsteps. So shortsighted unless of course it’s purposeful.
Now if only the Biden Administration would admit the danger Europe’s in and stop kowtowing to Russian- and Emirati-back “environmental” groups, the U.S. could be helping to offset the shortfall. If the Dominion pipeline hadn’t been blocked by repeated fatuous injunctions filed by activists, we could already be exporting West Virginian natural gas from Norfolk, Virginia.
It is barely mentioned that Germany is in this position due to single purpose dedication to a climate agenda. After an insane amount of subsidies for renewables Germany still helped finance Russia’s invasion of Ukraine while littering their landscape with endless wind farms.
Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. Germany and Europe should have begun weaning off Russia energy then. But no, when it was suggested that they do so, Germany snickered.
As an aside there is a big bill coming due on the wind farms as well as they age out and become toxic trash. Will they be replaced? Some say not all. This will require more fossil fuels
Germanys energy policy can only be described as an abject failure due to the lack of balance on national, economic and environmental security.
For example, how many businesses will declare bankruptcy over the winter due to energy costs? How will skyrocketing energy prices impact the cost of goods and services provided by those businesses that can survive? How deep will Germanys recession be due to their self inflicted energy crisis?
What is even more bizarre is that the US is now following in their footsteps. So shortsighted unless of course it’s purposeful.
Now if only the Biden Administration would admit the danger Europe’s in and stop kowtowing to Russian- and Emirati-back “environmental” groups, the U.S. could be helping to offset the shortfall. If the Dominion pipeline hadn’t been blocked by repeated fatuous injunctions filed by activists, we could already be exporting West Virginian natural gas from Norfolk, Virginia.