EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, a woman of notoriously bureaucratic disposition, has proposed that all member nations to reduce their use of natural gas by 15% in order to subsidize and protect the larger member nations -specifically Germany- who are more dependent on Russian energy.
Spain, Portugal and Greece are balking at the idea of voluntary cuts in order to spread the energy resources to the larger economies.
Things amid the EU could get spicy again, with the league of nations in Brussels taking control of economic wealth distribution.
BRUSSELS, July 20 (Reuters) – The European Union set out emergency plans on Wednesday for countries to cut their gas use by 15% until March, warning them that without deep cuts now they could struggle for fuel during winter if Russia cuts off supply.
Europe is racing to fill its gas storage ahead of winter and build a buffer in case Moscow further restricts supplies in retaliation for European support for Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.
[…] The regulation needs approval from a reinforced majority of EU countries. Country diplomats are set to discuss it on Friday, with the aim of approving it at an emergency meeting of their energy ministers on July 26.
“Russia is blackmailing us. Russia is using energy as a weapon. And therefore, in any event, whether it’s a partial, major cut-off of Russian gas or a total cut-off of Russian gas, Europe needs to be ready,” EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. (read more)
Obviously not everyone is happy….
BARCELONA, Spain — The European Union’s plan to reduce the bloc’s natural gas use by 15% to prepare for a potential cutoff by Russia this winter received sharp skepticism Thursday from the governments of Spain and Portugal, which are usually big supporters of the bloc.
The governments in Madrid and Lisbon said they would not support the initiative announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday. The proposal would start with voluntary reductions, but the EU’s head office also wants the power to make 15% savings mandatory in the event of an EU-wide energy emergency.
Spain and Portugal said making reductions obligatory was a non-starter. They noted that there are scant energy connections linking them to the rest of Europe and that they use very little Russian gas compared to fellow EU members such as Germany and Italy.
“We will defend European values, but we won’t accept a sacrifice regarding an issue that we have not even been allowed to give our opinion on,” Spanish Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera said. (read more)
Biden hereby declares that the states of Idaho, South and North Dakota, Wyoming, Iowa, Utah, Nevada and Ohio shall reduce their energy usage in order that California will benefit.
Hummmmm…. how would that go over?
As long as it takes to shutdown the interconnectors between California and those States?
Utah sends geothermal energy to CA. It is a direct connection that is ONLY for CA.
Be a damn shame if someone cut that line.
Theg need BOND!! JAMES BOND!!
I’ve a suspicion they would refuse James and insist on Ann(drogynous) Bond.
They ended James in the the last Bond flick, No Time to Simp.
Oh, thassrite. We get a Black transwoman with a furry fetish who likes to be “owned” by a master who takes them/him/her/it for walks on a leash when they//he/she/it is not working as a spy. Got it.
Yep. NTTD was an awful movie. But then I ‘ve mostly been of the attitude that Bond was dead ever since Sean Connery quit the role.
Every day, evermore further horizons of idiocy. 😒
The Ruskies probably remember what kicked off WWII in the pacific….was it a sneak attack by Japan, or an Oil embargo against the Japaneese?
it was an attack by the Empire of Japan on Manchuria to secure resources for itself in 1931
And the local war lords didn’t give a F. Not until Japan had created a modern wealthy city out of a small fishing village. But I guess that’s not how modern revisionist history is taught.
Oh and look who has revived the “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity sphere” hint: it isn’t Japan.
Fck the EU. Why would a third world countries sacrifice for EU wrong policies?
Time to force-disband this Davos “Wine and Cheese” cocktail club. No more enjoying the privileges of a class on the backs of the middle class.
Strip all personally of any assets and use the “fire” sale to heat Europe this coming winter. FTA.
The people of the world should begin a concerted effort to inventory the riches of this class of parasites. Identify how they are held (tax free). Identify how they are generated (violence, coercion and lies). If people paid attention to this, they would start to grasp where all the problems in our world are coming from. It ain’t climate change but the lie thereabout. But the sheeple are worried about pronouns and racism. Wonder where they got the idea these things have any relevance?
WWII germans showed that large cremetoria could be built ad hoc and operated with net heating (self fueling) once in operation without formal engineering.
Sounds like a potential winter option coming back this year….
Germany has been subsidizing the Club Med countries for a long time. As Germany’s economy dies, so will the economies of those countries now whining, e.g., Italy, Spain, Purtugal, Greece, et al. The EU is dead.
The “PIGS” may default on their debts (again), but they will not freeze this winter. They are in the drivers seat for once.
They still have to pay for that NG with foreign currency.
Italian PM Mario Draghi Officially Resigns, Becomes FIFTH Leader to Abandon Ship As Governments around the World Begin to Collapse Under Weight of the “Great Reset”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/italian-pm-mario-draghi-officially-resigns-becomes-fifth-leader-abandon-ship-governments-around-world-begin-collapse-weight-great-reset/
… Abandon Ship… or “Walks the Plank”…
…flees with accumulated loot to distance themselves from the blame and the angry mobs later.
When the BREXIT movement began, one of the actual, primary supporting reasons was that UK Finances and Economy were doing so well at the time that the UK was carrying more and more of the financial load in return for nothing. The Germans and French were reaping the EU Level Benefits.
The UK was actually contributing to the EU at a rate that was a close second to Germany at the time, while the “continental powers” continued to deny the UK a place at the EU decision making table.
The main reason the Germans and French were so upset at the time was the big hole in EU Finances a BREXIT would create as well as the extra drag financing the rest of the EU it would create.
Thus, to your point … The Germans and French feel the bill is due for ALL the money loaned to the “peasant socialist nations” when their economies failed and still coninue to struggle. This 15% is just a down payment.
Years of negative interest rates tend to create “expectations” among the creditors.
Very good synopsis.
And today, the Foreign Minister of Hungary is in Moscow to work out a trade agreement for more natural gas for Hungary….LOL!
When will these idiots wake up and stop following the US over an economic cliff of their own making? Stop with the Russian sanctions. Begin to think about the needs of your own citizens and what will protect your own national security interests.
Don’t be surprised if the other ex-Nazi regime Eastern European allies from WWII are involved in the same or similar discussions. There are still some pretty long memories with respect to the cost of German Ally, during good and bad times of WWII. The Germans were looting their nations even before the tide turned on the East Front.
The manner Germany and France run the EU has done very little to dispel that history.
Poland will delay a bit longer as they still hope to cash in and recover the Lvov Region and don’t be surprised if this is not part of the bribe from the EU.
The “Baltic States” had a longer, uglier history with Russia (and Poland), so they will be allot slower to come around.
Pretty sure that Spain, Portugal, Greece and most of Italy will get through the winter just fine.
There may be a bigger point being driven home that goes beyond the heating oil and fuels. France and Germany dumped tons of money into the failing socialist states in the EU. They suffered through negative interest rates because of the disasters those nations have become.
The LOAN has come due and those nations are being reminded in a not so subtle that the 15% is just a down payment. Germany and France are like nasty landlords demanding their rent from tenants who do not have the money to pay.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes for those loans to mentioned.
NS1 is back on line (from a “scheduled” maintenance check)
but the volume is way down.
this matter needs to end soon, there has been enough killing already.
negotiate a settlement with russia, give up crimea , north and south and nato needs to stop the proxy war.
it’s the best solution. It always was.
but make no mistake this war is no different than anything other.
money and power.
The ringworms in charge are responsible for all of this and should be held to account.
That’s such a great description.
I will bet you have no idea as to how accurate your statement may very well be.
https://annlouise.com/articles/cleansing-parasites/the-parasite-connection-to-your-moods-and-mental-health/
(this is but one of hundreds of articles discussing the proven effect of parasites on the brain.)
So many closet Marxists – How much lying they had to do, in order to stand on this stage.
The union of Marxists is glued together by energy. They all need it in one form or another in order to maintain their grip on power. Remove their access to oil and gas, and they will have an uprising. Russia reducing its flow of energy to them is threatening their existence. It follows that we can predict their behavior based on their need for this energy drug.
Reducing the population of their countries helps reduce their need for the energy drug.
However, this is the one thing that none of these people appear ready to see. As they contemplate “eliminating the surplus population,” as described by Dickens’ “Ghost of Christmas Present,” they somehow magically presuppose that they will (of course …) survive. 💀
Part of this SPR was sold to the CCP. Other countries represented by these members have agreed to withdraw some of their reserves. Clearly, they plan further action before running out.
Biden’s drawdowns are forecasted to deplete the strategic reserves to 414 million barrels by the end of the year, a 43% decline from its high in 2010 of 727 million barrels. The projected level of the strategic reserve would be its lowest level since 1984.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/exclusive-biden-siphons-us-strategic-petroleum-reserves-europe/
Perhaps when the Chinese invade they will be patient enough to wait while we charge the electric tanks they sold to us. General Milley will be the first to call and keep them updated.
To actually inject a bit of technical reality to your comment, know that your comment actually has some fact to it.
During the Future Combat System effort by the US Army, General Dynamics and British Aerospace (ex-FMC and Cadillac Gage in the US) performed quite a bit of engineering effort studying electric drives and power for armored vehicles. The weight, volume, power density vs needs and price tags were prohibitive to the design of armored combat vehicles. By the way, DoD at the time also had to real life cycle assessments the sustainment and the disposal costs were massive.
The same can be said of most heavy vehicles … fossil fuel is hear to stay for some time as power technology has not advanced far in the past 10 years to be of practical and economic use.
There are major parameters always missing from discussions with respect to the vehicles being powered, no matter the size.
The design balance has to consider among other factors: Weight – Volumes (size) – Desired Speed – range (time) – amp hour draw – amp hours available – power density needed to generate and sustain the amp-hour draw, etc. etc.
Of note is that automotive electrical power systems are notoriously HEAVY and LARGE, thus contribute NEGATIVELY to the entire balance of the vehicle system involved. then one can move on to costs of sustainment and disposal.
The direct current electric motor is close to being the perfect engine, but it needs a power source. The power source or storage device gains weight with its ability to retain power, and at the same time it becomes dangerous to use. It’s like attaching a chemical bomb to your car and hoping you can control its reaction speed.
Tesla’s long-held dream was to create a source of inexhaustible, clean energy that was free for everyone.
Besides rapid weight growth, it is just as important to that the electric power sources gains rapidly in Volume as stored energy requirements grow with increases range and speed requirements.
What good is a vehicle if cannot carry anything or have the range to go anywhere?
The so called economically priced compact EV’s as so small that they are also NOT practical because there is NO room carry anything.
All true, aside from strapping a piece of radioactive material to your ass and driving around with it as an alternative. If you care to call that an alternative.
IMO it’s why they want to control Russia, to control their energy and other natural resources.
The Bible speaks of people just like this. John 8:44: “You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
Spanish Ecological Transition Minister…Shared European values?
Europe is well and truly f*&^d.
“Stand by for BRICS.” Stand by for other countries to fully realize that “The West™” accounts for less than one-third of this planet’s population. And, despite its “bottomless ‘currency,'” an even smaller share of its material wealth.
They recognize that “The West™” is a pied piper. A lemming that they don’t have to follow over the cliff.
(P.S.: When will we(!) do the same? “Who elected these ‘leaders,’ anyway?” Whaddaya mean ‘we,’ paleface?)
Globalist Biotch! Bad idea for Europe to have an EU. But next move will be a global union. Only thing standing in the way is us. Vote for America First legislatures as if your life depended upon it, because it does.
Klaus friggin Schultz is a deranged maniac as is Kerry and every other person who is promoting global warming and the idea that the entire world is at risk. BS! That is how they have got to where they are and it seems there are not many disputing and spreading the truth because of fear of being cancelled. If we lat Brandon get away with designating climate as an emergency, everything will be downhill from here and we the people are screwed and we live under tyranny.
So, please tell me now, why is anyone still listening to Klaus?
He was always a “vulture capitalist,” making improbable amounts of so-called “money” by bankrupting the paper-castles of various countries. Why, then, does he remain as someone who is “anointed” to lead us along the road to perdition?
Charles Manson influenced people with drugs and underage girls. Doubtless Klaus uses similar tactics. The sociopaths he has organized have an unfillable void in their lives. Look at a Hillary or a Bill Gates.
For those old enough, I think, The Little Red Hen, story is in play here!
Stop immigration and deport the invaders would greatly lower Gas use and lower GHG’s, pollution, while protecting wildlife habitat/natural resources. That these green marxists are for open borders means they are liars and frauds
The Great Green Grift: As Globe Plunges into Manufactured Energy Crisis, “Green” ESG Funds Quietly Begin Purchasing Oil Stocks
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/great-green-grift-globe-plunges-manufactured-energy-crisis-green-esg-funds-quietly-begin-purchasing-oil-stocks/
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/esg-funds-are-quietly-buying-oil-stocks
Bust it and buy it.
Best scam going.
The Sound of Music | “The Hills Are Alive” Lyric Video – YouTube
The hills are alive with the Oil of Putin
with fuel they have pumped for a thousand miles
The hills warmed my home with the Oil of Putin
Now my heart wants to see every Biden stand trial
My fists want to beat on the heads of these freaks, And the Reich says to chop down the trees
My home is like ice because of the price, Brussels won’t care if I freeze
He laughs like a kook when he trips and falls over stairs on his way
We freeze through the night on a lark for some tree-hugging gays…
I go to the hills when my heater’s empty
I know I will warm what I’ve warmed before
My tank will be filled with the Oil of Putin
When we end Joe’s Endless War
Rest in the Vine: The Shills Are a Lie: Ursala Sings Andrews!
(bonus verse)
The pipeline is full with the Gas of Putin
Gas we could buy were it not for O
The hills smell so ripe with the Gas of Putin
Oh–nevermind, it’s Joe
Read a bit yesterday where Russia offered to send gas to Germany via Nord Stream 2 and it was shot down claiming it wasn’t certified.
That could be completed in a single week.
Washington wants Europe to feel their war, hard.
Are we about to see the “Battle of the Bulge” again? Remember, Biden has been selling off our SPR to the CCP.
“The plan was clever, almost brilliant in a diabolical way, but it had a deadly weakness: The Germans did not have enough fuel to reach Antwerp. To succeed, they would have to capture American fuel reserves. In particular, there was one huge depot, near Stavelot in eastern Belgium, containing 2.5 million gallons of fuel, which the German army absolutely needed to take”.
In our case, NATO would need the Russian fuel reserves and food.
Yeah, think that Putin wouldn’t fall for it. However, depending on the amount of Globalists in the chain of command anything is possible.
Remember Biden, left 85 Billion plus of the newest military equipment in Afghanistan. Latest generation of stuff that hasn’t been fully supplied to our military yet.
It is over for Zelensky and with Zelenskiy criminal Ukraine. Billions of Americans taxpayer dollars down the drain. The biggest criminal operation in the history of the World is the Globalist “Deep State” right here in Washington DC.
The caption over the Klaus Schwab pic should read “You will reduce energy use AND you will eat bugs”
How is it that the Machiavellian, narcissistic, psychopaths (as defined by Jordan Peterson) have taken over our world and we’ve all been coerced into living their nightmare fantasies?
Because the American people are too nice Libtards and think they can reason with them. Once people realize they are the Libtard mentally sick people they are, people will use more caution with these wackos.
The aggression is so blatant, it’s unlikely that those who haven’t caught on by now will ever do so.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: Elected by no one.
Germany continues to be possessed by demons.
That particular demon is a mercantile Dutch Hanseatic League high-roller descendant.
It seems to me that America already lost the War with Russia. Like we did previously in Vietnam, Irak, Libya, Somalia and the surrender in Afghanistan by Milley and Austin. Who’s afraid of Joe Dementia? There goes my 401k, lost 11% in the second quarter. What’s in your wallet?
She needs to get laid
She has seven children.
Imagine the damage she caused to the planet by having seven children.
According to their way of thinking she should be in prison for crimes against the planet. 🤔
This is how communism works. Spread the misery so everyone is equally miserable except the elites.
And as we speak, we find that (according to Bank of America analysts) that European Union ESG investors are now purchasing stock in oil, coal, and gas companies.
Putin is about to slap that smug smile off these pointy head elites faces. It gonna be a cold winter in the EU.
The solution offered by these people never involves producing more. Always to resign one’s self to poverty. It says a great deal about the mind set of these weak and depressed people. The Buddhists call this condition “impoverished mind.” It is a syndrome to be overcome because it leads to immorality.
Given today’s technology, there really is no such thing as an involuntary shortage of anything. These cretins create suffering to yoke people to their defective mentalities.
The solution offered by these people never involves producing more.
Jimmy Carter 1978
If Poland opens its pipelines – or rather turns them on to send gas to Germany instead of getting gas from Germany; if Germany opens Nordstream 2 (ready to go) – problem solved. No country has to curtail their own use (especially when you think that Germany has a shortage due to its own actions)
It seems to me that aligning oneself with the USofA brings nothing but pain – no gain.
In a sane world; if there is a shortage of something needed…One would find another more reliable source?
If NATO is there to defend Europe from an aggressive Russia; why is the largest European member buying gas from the “enemy”? Why isn’t the USA providing LNG to Europe? Oh right; because of the nut living at 1600 Penn Ave?
This is just more proof that the world has gone insane?
The Trump boomerang strikes again.
He definitely owns a time machine.
How soon until this “suggestion” from the smug EU blonde becomes an order, enforced by apparatchiks with titles such as “Ecological Transition Minister”?
EU members will be challenged in many ways going forward
Look at von der Leyen, then look at Putin… this is not a fair fight! But hey! The Germans coined it: Realpolitik
Effete polished woke Europeans have to live with the consequences of their postmodern mindsets. This also applies to the Biden administration.
Put your thinking caps on and pull 15% out of these charts….
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=51258
We all know a country or two will be targeted by the others…
I love this. The incompetency and feudalism that has made Europe the envy of no one out in the open for all to see.
Tell me again how the EU isn’t a communistic construct?
This woman is a WORLD TERRORIST along with the NAZI Klaus Schwab and friends. These people should be in GAUNTANAMO!
Why is it always Germany? Every time.
Obviously we need to restate this honestly/accurately:
“The European Union set out emergency plans on Wednesday for countries to cut their gas use by 15% until March, warning them that without deep cuts now they could struggle for fuel during winter due to the failed policy of relying on Russian natural gas supplies, and the failure to provide for alternatives when the inevitable shortages and Russian manipulation of these supplies occurs.
Well, Spain, Portugal and Greece already rejected this ~ 22 hours ago. Links below.
Thank you.
https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/spain-rejects-eu-s-proposal-to-cut-gas-consumption-by-15-amid-concerns-122072100138_1.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/spain-portugal-reject-eu-plan-cap-natural-gas-87185372
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/greece-resort-power-cuts-if-russian-gas-supplies-disrupted-plan-2022-07-21/
Sounds like the “beginning of the End” for the EU. Will all the countries of the EU want the pain spread out on them for the idiocy of Germany??? LMFAO