Why Europe's energy crisis is worsening as prices soar

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[michaelcarroll]

If we release the oil reserves that’d be horrible. That’d be such a poor decision. That would cause the US to be exposed to the same exact problems happening globally.

[sakstony]

Is US really contemplating banning oil exports to Europe? And we're being told that we're putting ourselves at risk by depending on Russia for our energy...strange logic

[fynflorentine]

Wind power fell from 30% to 7%
Almost like climate is not reliable

[libertysprings]

People might like to build a fireplace before winter

[acidmana]

Anti-Nuclear activists and Coal and Oil Lobbyist when they successfully closed Nuclear Power Plants: Big win for humanity"
The same people during energy crisis and when the OPEC and Russia increase their oil prices: *cricket noises*

[festorfamine]

So everyone is ignoring the one country in Europe where energy price hasn't gone up, France.

[warrenpeece]

"Global energy crisis." I think when they say "energy" they mean fuel. Oh well, just add it to the ever growing list of crises - climate crisis, covid crisis, retirement crisis, homeless crisis, affordable housing crisis, etc. *yawn*

[dmammino]

Millions of Americans could face even higher energy bills this winter if the Biden administration closes a gas and oil pipeline running through Michigan, a group of Midwest lawmakers has warned.

Line 5 pipeline could be under threat due to the White House exploring the potential impact of closing it on fuel prices in the region, according to a recent Politico report, amid a drive to reduce the U.S.'s dependence on fossil fuels.

The line, which delivers Canadian crude oil and natural gas from Alberta to Ontario through Wisconsin, the Great Lakes and Michigan, has operated since 1953 and currently transports about 540, 000 barrels per day.

[bukovinian]

As soon as he started talking about everyday Brandon at gas pump, they cut him off lol 😂

[pedrolopes]

My energy bill hasn't encreased a cent since march. People outside the EU need to understand that Germany is 1 country in Europe, not the entire continent, not the entire EU. Germany screwed up big time about energy, first they were saying "nuclear is green, we are keeping the nuclear" then Fukushima's incident happened, they dismantled the nuclear plants and opened coal and gas power plants, then Merkel was bribed by Putin and she double down on gas dependency from Russia (Morocco and Tunisia are gas supply alternatives to Russia) then Merkel with Putin planned Nordstream 2 to increase the dependency of energy from Russia... The so called energy crisis in the EU is a German made crisis.

[evelynoliver]

No grinding on a corporate job, just being the master of your own can be the best version of you, never forget Rome wasn't built in a day, hard work pays...

[Lormenkal]

Imagine thinking 5 bucks a gallon is much LULW

[fudianto]

WELL INDONESIA HAS B20 FROM PALM OIL ... CHEAP, GREEN & SUSTAINABLE

[burnthem]

South East Asia biofuel belike " 🤗... I'm here babe... Wanna banning us?"... 😂😂😂

[HailNjord]

Meanwhile in France using nuclear power are like what energy crisis? 😳

[mariogotze]

Eltricity Prices in Germany aren’t 300Euro/MWatt. They are probably rising from 30 to 40 Euro

[johnmcentegart]

Eurasia has more Oil than America can shake a stick at. Exporting Oil to Eurasia from America is a joke.

[raysh]

Makes me wanna play
"Electric avenue"
Eddy Grant

[arnoldozamorano]

Sweater sales should up dramatically this winter!!!

[simonwei]

People used to say nuclear is not very economical due its high prices (solar and wind receive a ton of government subsidies, and natural gas was dirt cheap back then). From another perspective, I'm kind of glad that more and more people are realizing how good nuclear is due to this crisis: Nuclear doesn't need any fuel supply (or at least very infrequently) so it's much less susceptible to the volatile market price; It generates at peak power most of the time, so you don't need to worry about the inconsistency of solar or wind either. Let's just hope more nuclear power plants will pop up after this.