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More Bad News For Europe: Forecasters Predict Colder Winter, Less Renewable Power
by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Oct 05, 2022 - 05:45 AM

Just days after we learned that Europe's cell phone tower energy reserves will last 30 minutes during the upcoming mass blackouts, putting the entire European cellular system in jeopardy, the continent which will soon replace Russia with the US as its vassal master and energy sponsor, got even more bad news: according to Florence Rabier, director-general of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), i.e., the European weather forecasting agency,  early indications for November and December were for a period of high pressure over western Europe, which was likely to bring with it colder spells and less wind and rainfall, reducing the generation of renewable power.

This, as the FT translates, means that Europe could suffer a colder winter with less wind and rain than usual, adding to the challenges for governments trying to solve the continent’s energy crisis. ...
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Polish Households Burn Trash To Stay Warm As Sanctions On Russia Backfire
by Tyler Durden
Friday, Oct 07, 2022 - 04:15 AM

Poland temporarily suspended air quality controls so people can burn coal for heating homes through next April to ease the worst energy crisis in a generation. While Polish households have increased demand for coal and wood to offset the soaring energy costs of natural gas and electricity, some people are burning trash to stay warm.

Bloomberg spoke with one Polish resident by the name of Paulina Mroczkowska, who said she's already noticed people burning trash to heat their homes as a shortage of the NatGas worsens and the cost of living spirals out of control. ...

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    "It's so bad this season that you can smell trash burning every day, which is completely new.

    "Rarely can you smell a regular fuel. It's scary to think what happens when it really gets cold," Mroczkowska said, a resident of Warsaw, the capital city.
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Wait until they start burning dung for heat.
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It's hard to fuel one's automobile in France: Police in France are now checking your fuel tank before they allow you access to petrol stations… if you have too much in your tank, you are turned away.

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1579285480570384384
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It's hard to fuel one's automobile in France: Police in France are now checking your fuel tank before they allow you access to petrol stations… if you have too much in your tank, you are turned away.

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1579285480570384384


Wow.

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Survivor Lilly - A bushcraft oriented chick over in Austria that I listen to upon occasion.

She concurs. 11min


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEIm47oY3Bw

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It's hard to fuel one's automobile in France: Police in France are now checking your fuel tank before they allow you access to petrol stations… if you have too much in your tank, you are turned away.

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1579285480570384384
A clever Frenchman might siphon off gas from his tank into a storage container before going to the petrol station so that they could build up a supply.

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A clever Frenchman might siphon off gas from his tank into a storage container before going to the petrol station so that they could build up a supply.
They're probably forbidding citizens from purchasing gas cans.
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A warning for us

Europe relied on a dictator who is hostile to them for their energy needs and they are paying the price for it, along with destructive green energy policies

Our own  Dementia in Chief is begging hostile dictators to provide us with our energy needs. What could go wrong?
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

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Survivor Lilly - A bushcraft oriented chick over in Austria that I listen to upon occasion.

She concurs. 11min


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEIm47oY3Bw
Same overall effect: the Middle Class is getting raped by all this.
Communists hate the Middle Class.
Not only is it the chance for those who start out poor to transition to something better, but it stands in the way of turning the poor against the wealthy.
The current iteration seeks to replace it with a swarm of government functionaries whose main missions are to protect the 'elites' and to keep the poor poor with regulations and currency manipulation, and if necessary, armed force/terror.

How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
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Depending on the winter and the supply, if it goes really bad we could see formally stalwart West European governments destabilized if not toppled, anarchy, revolution, or worse...
The Republic is lost.

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Same overall effect: the Middle Class is getting raped by all this.
Communists hate the Middle Class.
Not only is it the chance for those who start out poor to transition to something better, but it stands in the way of turning the poor against the wealthy.
The current iteration seeks to replace it with a swarm of government functionaries whose main missions are to protect the 'elites' and to keep the poor poor with regulations and currency manipulation, and if necessary, armed force/terror.

That's right - The thing that is scary is that this assault stretches beyond nations, beyond continents. It is not only here. This is an all out assault across all the West, and beyond, simultaneously.

And it is foisted upon us all by our leaders.
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A warning for us

Europe relied on a dictator who is hostile to them for their energy needs and they are paying the price for it, along with destructive green energy policies

Our own  Dementia in Chief is begging hostile dictators to provide us with our energy needs. What could go wrong?

Now that the Nord Stream pipelines have been cut off western Europe is not going to be able to sell out Ukraine for their energy needs. The remaining pipelines can easily become damaged which would further cut their supply. I know they have made tremendous strides in finding new sources for LNG and are scrambling to put in temporary facilities for offloading shipments, but even though they will come up short I don't feel a lot of empathy for them.

Western Europe blindly followed their 1st world green agenda fantasy and now they see it was stupid. Maybe they will push the World Bank to changing their lending to African nations so they can develop their resources to sell to them. Currently the World Bank is only making loans for "renewables" in Africa.
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Greta says don't shut down the nuclear plants just yet. Whew! Finally, some expertise!


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Eastern Europe headed for darkness this winter thanks to climate idiocy-caused energy crisis:
1. Kosovo utility donates coal to its workers for home heating.
2. Government says it prefers power cuts to spending huge amounts of money on coal imports.
Reuters: Kosovo's power utility donates coal to its workers for heating
11:19 AM · Oct 13, 2022
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