The energy crisis in Germany is now a confluence of terrible events that will snowball well into next year.
The world’s largest chemical company, BASF, has announced they will cut down the production of ammonia in order to use less natural gas.
In the short term this will help Germany build up natural gas supplies to survive a cold winter with predicted rationing still planned. However, in the long term the shortage of ammonia means less fertilizer which will mean future shortages and increased costs for farmers; ultimately creating lower yields next year.
FRANKFURT, July 27 (Reuters) – Germany’s BASF (BASFn.DE), the world’s largest chemical company, is cutting ammonia production further due to soaring natural gas prices, it said on Wednesday, with potential ramifications from farming to fizzy drinks.
Germany’s biggest ammonia maker SKW Piesteritz and number four Ineos also said they could not rule out production cuts as the country grapples with disruption to Russian gas supplies.
Ammonia plays a key role in the manufacturing of fertiliser, engineering plastics and diesel exhaust fluid. Its production also yields high-purity carbon dioxide (CO2) as a byproduct, which is needed by the meat and fizzy drinks industries.
“We are reducing production at facilities that require large volumes of natural gas, such as ammonia plants,” BASF Chief Executive said in a media call after the release of quarterly results, confirming an earlier Reuters report.
[…] Unlike many European countries, Germany has no liquefied natural gas (LNG) port terminals to replace Russian pipeline gas. That means companies are under political and commercial pressure to reduce gas intensive activities if gas deliveries are cut further.
[…] Russia resumed pumping gas via its biggest pipeline to Europe, Nord Stream 1, on July 21 after a 10-day maintenance outage, but Gazprom (GAZP.MM) on Monday said supplies to Germany would drop to just 20% of capacity. (read more)
The ‘climate change’ bravo sierra really gets on my last wire…it’s just a pretense, an invention of the DC Grifters:
–“”[W]e still feel the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.”–Thomas Payne
And it’s not only nitrogen fertilizer they’re going after
A large component of this globalist attack on farmers is to do away with meat and dairy, their favorite nemeses (why do you think crickets and oat milk are being pumped up as future foods?)
“… the Netherlands is also the European Union’s largest exporter of meat and is home to some 1.5 million dairy cows and calves. The emissions reductions demanded by the government would mean slashing the number of cattle, chickens, and pigs by at least 30 percent.
“Like their Dutch counterparts, British farmers play a crucial role in providing milk and meat to the masses, but their government, too, appears committed to encouraging dairy and meat farmers to leave the industry. In return for a one-time, lump-sum payment, traditional farmers are expected to “surrender their entitlements” and create “real opportunities for new farmers.” But who exactly are these new farmers?
“New farmers,” in truth, mean new, more “sustainable” farming methods. The aim, according to the arch-neoliberal World Economic Forum, which is actively encouraging farmers to embrace “climate-smart” methods, is to make the full switch to “net-zero, nature-positive food systems” by 2030.
“In other words, organic farming.
“But as studies show, organic farming is, ironically enough, not sustainable. It might work for small communities, but at a macro level, it fails miserably, both economically and environmentally.
“Anyone who doubts this should examine Sri Lanka, a country facing state collapse caused, in part, by a ban against traditional fertilizers and pesticides in favor of organic, climate-friendly alternatives that can’t sustain large-scale farming.”
The Elite War on Farmers
Whats not to like for the evil ones?
Bankrupt the remainder of small independent farmers. Control the food supply and cause famines to kill off millions of those deplorables. And, weaken the survivors into less of a threat by forcing a below subsistance level of nutrients,calories, etc. for their survival.
The introductory paragraphs to that article are also a must-read
This movie has played before:
“Eighty years ago, in my country of Ireland, then-Agriculture Minister James Ryan signed into effect the compulsory tillage scheme. Amid the supply crises precipitated by World War II, the scheme barred farmers from using their land for any other purpose than the cultivation of wheat and other crops. The intervention enraged farmers.
“The ruling meant dairy farmers were prevented from using their land to feed cows for milking, and beef farmers were prevented from raising cattle for the country’s meat factories. Similarly, pig and sheep farmers couldn’t use land to feed and fatten up their animals. Farmers who refused to submit to the new law or failed their mandatory quotas had their lands seized by the state.
“Fast-forward to today, and Irish farmers are again being threatened. Cut back on emissions, they are being warned, or face as-yet-unspecified consequences.”
Somewhere I read that the fertilizers that are being produced and sold to farmers, have lower nitrogen content than normal and, as such, produce much lower crop yields than in prior seasons. “Kick ’em when they’re up, kick ’em when they’re down …” Don Henley / Dirty Laundry
Olaf, who’s laughing now??
We are going to see what a world without fertilizer looks like. Hint: it looks like Global Famine.
So they cut energy production like natural gas to stop global warming and now want to save natural gas to not freeze in the winter….gotta love liberalism.
Remember the BASF commercials: “We don’t make the product, we make the product better.” Now it’s “no product, nothing better!” What a damn mess this all is.
If you grow your own food, save your pee for nitrogen. It’s free and you can water it down to feed your plants.
Progressives are ‘all about’ progress, don’t you know?
It’s interesting that most of their publications feature the word ‘forward,’ and in the brain of the liberal, there’s almost a sense of magic and pride about that descriptive word. But they are anything but! In reality, their idealized state is a fantasized Garden of Eden, and not as some fairytale but as an actual goal. The fact is that all their solutions are really backward-looking, not forward-looking, and they really do believe that serfdom for most of humanity is better than industrialized capitalism. What they never say is that their woke hierarchy of pompous asses will be our overlords, thus driving us back thousands of years from which state humanity may never recover.
“save your pee for nitrogen”
Just don’t make a post-asparagus contribution
— or you’ll have an extra-smelly barrel of pee
You heard it here first folks … I’ll be here all week … try the veal …
Can’t I just raise rabbits? Or, chickens and use their poop?
I remember Vermiculite, a 1950s fertilizer, made by drying and processing human effluent from urban sewage plants. It can be done.
Now our sewers are filled with “flushed” remnants of AIDS, monkey pox, hepatitis, all things COVID, all related medications, fentanyl, opioids and psychotropic drugs … will that poison be baked out the “fertilizer” after its been dried and processed – or absorbed by the plants?
I think the ratio is 9 -1
it’s free and it’s on the internet it’s called PERMACULTURE!!! you better cram hard, the test is just around the corner.
We could eliminate the use of ethanol in gasoline, oh wait, Biden just increased it.
Hey that is a two for because ethanol destroys internal combustion engines over time and they can starve everybody at the same time! How long are we going to put up with this crap?
with our illegal immigration situation, we’re gonna need that corn for tortillas
gnomesayin’ ?
TACOS, man, tacos! Get with the Doctor Jill program!
They’re waging a war against humanity, an undeclared war and yet a war nonetheless . . .
“We’re already in World War 3. We are already in conflict that extends so far beyond Ukraine, actually, even within the context of Western Europe but we’ve clearly been pretty much at war in space, uh below the surface of the oceans, submarine warfare between super powers, uh, I’d even say this has been happening for at least four years, [since 2019] and it’s spilled over into public view on the ground, uh, but we don’t “frame” it that way.” ~ Philippa “Pippa” Malmgren’s statement at the 2022 World Government Summit in Dubai.
. . . and I can assure you they have already picked a single man to run that war against the world . . .
“So, ladies and gentlemen my plea today is for countries to come together to create the environment that enables every sector of industry to take the action required. We know this will take trillions not billions of dollars. We also know that countries, many of whom are burdened by growing levels of debt simply cannot afford to go green. Here we need a vast military-style campaign to marshal the strength of the global private sector with trillions “AT HIS DISPOSAL”, far beyond global GDP, and with the greatest respect beyond even the governments of the world’s leaders. It offers the only real prospect of achieving fundamental economic transition.” ~ Prince Charles, Duke of Edinburgh’s statement on 31 October, 2021 at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) held in Glasgow, Scotland
Thank you , found the source of Pippa Malmgren, her interview with macrovoices podcast an ERIK interviews her and what she is saying is fascinating and right on. And she is a globalist mouthpiece, been that way all her life basically. Probably MK ultra mind control as she comes from a long-line of presidental advisors and has no personal life.
https://www.macrovoices.com/podcast-transcripts/1058-dr-pippa-malmgren-wwiii-has-already-started
All thanks to the Paris Agreement with all of it’s lunatic targets, which President Trump withdrew from and the Installment rejoined on day one of his residency.
Can we harness the cats? They piss straight ammonia, N2SO4.
Are there parasites in pee? Cuz cats tend to have parasites. Just use human pee.
Certain cultures recommend camel urine.
“The Haber process for creating nitrogen fertilizers is over one hundred years old. This process is credited with facilitating explosive global population growth.”
“Billions of human lives depend on resultant fertilizers from reacting natural gas with air in huge facilities worldwide. The Haber-Bosch Process.”
Haber-Bosch Process — and the Coming Famines
https://michaelyon.com/dispatches/haber-bosch-process-and-the-coming-famines/
Wasn’t it Klaus Schwab who famously said, “No soup for you!”
Klaus had more hair then
He had clothes then too
Our War to Build Back Better will cause famine. The Marxists want billions to die.
At some point these companies and the political class become parties to mass murder.
Accountability.
Did I read somewhere that Olaf Scholz is a moderate socialist (Marxist)?
Germans must feel their future is in safe hands – perhaps not all?
It is becoming painfully obvious that the leaders and elites worldwide are employing the tactic which has been so successful for Joe Bite Me. They are considering the most obvious solution for any problem and then doing the exact opposite. Which begs the question: how the f*ck do we survive these idiots??
This is all part of the new world murder going on, the stupid will die
Everyone must be ok with the Globalist takeover. Other than farmers everyone else is laying down. While here in the US all those environmental groups who played a game of lawfare with a wink and nods of the US agencies so they could all get enormous settlements are buying up huge swaths of farmland and taking it out of production. And Americans just yawn.