{"id":425779,"date":"2022-04-03T01:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T22:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-west-needs-to-end-its-reckless-war-on-energy\/"},"modified":"2022-04-03T01:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T22:24:16","slug":"the-west-needs-to-end-its-reckless-war-on-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-west-needs-to-end-its-reckless-war-on-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"#The West needs to end its reckless war on energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2884da8bde8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2884da8bde8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-west-needs-to-end-its-reckless-war-on-energy\/#%E2%80%9CThe_West_needs_to_end_its_reckless_war_on_energy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The West needs to end its reckless war on energy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_West_needs_to_end_its_reckless_war_on_energy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The West needs to end its reckless war on energy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/UKRAINE-CRISIS_IEA-OIL-e1648846891879.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Maybe <em>now <\/em>the West will wake up to the foolishness of its war on energy, which has left it badly dependent on the Kremlin Killer and other scum for oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is creating ginormous energy-related headaches for Europe, with Germany moving to ration natural gas amid looming shortages, along with sky-high prices (particularly on oil and gas at the pump) there and here.<\/p>\n<p>Yet energy prices were surging well before the war, largely thanks to the West\u2019s attempts to do away with its own fossil-fuel industries, despite the lack of viable alternatives. That\u2019s especially true in Europe, which has been madly racing away from gas and oil \u2014 closing natural-gas plants, for example, and discouraging investment. Germany has even moved away from nuclear energy.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the West lacks anything like enough substitutes to handle its energy needs. Besides, renewables like solar or wind power are unreliable, as Europe learned the hard way over the past year or so when <em>both <\/em>sunshine and wind were in short supply. The Ukraine war has only driven home those points.<\/p>\n<p>Germany, of course, has long known renewables won\u2019t cut it, which is why it\u2019s sought to buy ever-increasing amounts of natural gas from Vladimir Putin, with the help of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. That\u2019s left it foolishly reliant on him.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, President Donald Trump said in a UN speech, \u201cGermany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely change course,\u201d and German ambassadors <em>laughed<\/em>. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Indeed, Russia\u2019s been supplying 30% to 40% of Europe\u2019s energy needs \u2014 which is why it\u2019s been so hard for the European Union to cut off Russian oil and gas in wake of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as prices at US pumps spike, President Joe Biden\u2019s been reduced to begging OPEC and thugs like Venezuelan dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro for more oil, as well as stunts like raiding the nation\u2019s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as he did again Thursday. Lord knows what perilous concessions his team\u2019s offering Tehran to restore the flawed 2015 nuclear deal, with the hope of new oil supplies from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>To help Europe, Biden announced a deal to supply it with an extra 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas this year. Yet LNG plants in America are already at capacity, and anyway that amount won\u2019t come close to replacing the 155 bcm Russia provides. And though America has plenty more gas, restrictions on drilling, fracking, gas pipelines, new LNG facilities and the like stand in the way of larger output.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, the European Union could produce more oil itself \u2014 if its western members lifted their foolish, unscientific bans on fracking. (Same for high-energy-cost US states such as California and New York, an issue we\u2019ll return to this week.)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for the West to acknowledge an inconvenient truth: We will all need carbon-based fuel (and nuclear energy) for the foreseeable future. Refusing to exploit our own resources simply leaves us buying from, and <em>enabling<\/em>, the world\u2019s most vile regimes.\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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