The Lights Are Dim .. The Heat Is Off .. The Shops Are Closed

I’m so glad this topic has come up. Thousands, if not millions, will suffer needlessly. The more we can get the truth out there the better.

Live not by lies! (Alex Scholtzenytsen). Sp

 

Agreed, that's why I used "..." for localised.

 

At least the Scottish Govt understand the issue in the UK:
"However, maximising that opportunity will require fundamental reform of the energy market.

The scandal of the current situation - the scandal of extreme fuel poverty in energy rich Scotland - is that renewable electricity is already relatively cheap.

Offshore and onshore wind can now provide electricity at a lower cost than nuclear or gas-fired power. And yet the wholesale price of electricity in Britain is driven by gas, the most expensive form of generation.

That must change. We will press the UK government to speed up fundamental reform of the energy market and break the link between the cost of gas and the price of renewable and low carbon electricity."

(From their programme for Govt today)

 

Again, thanks for adding local knowledge.

This sounds even MORE maddening. Alternatives exist, yet moribund government inefficiency may cause Grandma to freeze.

Funny how during the Covid crisis individual citizens were called Grandma Killers if they didn’t run out and take the poison shots. But now that government bureaucrats are at fault.....killing Grandma isn’t such a big emergency.

 

Luckily I didnt vote those idiots.

There were many failures done in the past. Begun with the shut down of the atomic power plants.

But now the issue cant be crazier. They shut down atomic ants, they shut down coal plants and left some atomic reactors as a redundant system.

Now that gas is so expensive due to their stupidity and lobbyism they still just burn it. This costs much gasy makes electricity prizes high and so has a domino effect.
Instead of really getting indempendent from gas from Russia by shutting down gas power pkants they shut tmdown the last 3 atomic reactors and coal plants after winter.

They really believe that the electricity grid can be managed with renewable facilities.
If there will be a blackout or a brownout. I will go somewhere else. Like scandinavia or irleand or Great britain. They arent connected to theainland european grid, which is reaching till turkey and Morocco.

Politicians are incompetent everywhere.

 

Good explanation Servus

 

Here’s a decidedly NON mainstream view from the USA about the current environment in Europe. I can assure you, very few Yanks have any idea what’s going on across the pond.

Dr Steve Turley has been a reasonable and accurate voice for years.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/y7rUrdrs2nc/

 

Lest anyone think Europe is alone in governmental incompetence, or that I might be biased, here’s what Californians ate going through:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/julio...ossible-in-california-amid-heat-wave-n2612746

Mind you, it’s no longer MAY go without power—they already are. The news just isn’t reporting it. But my friends back there are.

3rd world stuff!

 

Tucker has a knack for pointing out the crazy. Ukraine must have some serious dirt on Western politicians.

I forget who said it, but we (the West) is voluntarily doing to itself in peacetime what the enemy attempts to do to it in wartime. (Shutting off power)

 

Well thanks for the informatio.n. But a rotation blackout is more a brownout.
Blackout is just a clickbait, because it generated fear in the population.
These rolling brownputs are a mechanism to prefent a fatal blackout, which coukd destroy the grit fast.

I think this is already a problem in US. I very often read about this ir see it on YT.

A big problem. What we are facing in Germany is, that we have many people who bought electric heaters. They want to save gas - for financial reason or just to be "green" and solidary.
I dont want to imagine what happens in wintertime, when all of them switch their heaters on at the same time.

Me for my person am very sure that we will have brown outs or blackouts in winter. It is no problme for a terroristic group to cut off almost all of europes electricity supply.
The mainland is from protugal, spain,marocco, franceover all european counries in the middle till ukraine included, Bulgaria and turkey. This is a big grid, which is stacked together from several grids. They can be cut iff if not synchrinzed and divided. But it is one grid. So if something happens hakf if Europe will be dark. Some years ago there was an accident on a construction site. It almost knocked off netherlands, norther Germany, Belgium and parts of France.

I am already a prepper since years. My wife and family always rolled her eyes and made fun about me because I stockpiled food and water.
Now I am stockpiling firewood.
I dont see the failure. Better to be safe than sorry.
Well now they also bought some stuff and stood in front of empty storage cabinets when the ukraine war started.

So my recommendation is to all to get some stuff and keep it at home. Or somewhere else.

 

we got a Lady priminster now and thats good cos Ladys are lot better than men am.

 

Hey! Europe has a new idea! Flatten the curve!

Now where have we heard that before?

Any sucker who buys this really has little between the ears.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/Chg8FjL9Qm8K/

 

Soon people will be rubbing two sticks together saying EITHER:

Imagine how cold we WOULD have been.

Or:

Dang Putin, only gave us small sticks! More money for Ukraine!

 

Well said. And thank you for taking time to share in English.

 

True Banana Republic stuff. Everyone should be ashamed.

 

Nonsense!

 

Yeah, peace and prosperity are right around the corner.

Perhaps it’s time to quit playing games (like the green economic suicide the west is committing) and get a little serious.

 

Speaking for the USA, there has to be a smooth transition to green energy production and other green policies but not only have the 'other green policies' been totally ignored but a long-term plan for energy doesn't exist.

The USA long ago could have embraced policies that encourage:

encouraging the use of glass and recycling of glass
limits in use of styrofoams and other packing materials
limits in use of aluminum in bottling
dramatic limits in use of plastics in a vast array of areas (bottling, packaging, consumer products)
standardization on larger batteries and charging of them (cars /trucks)
recycling of all sizes of batteries
recycling of plastics

You could go on and on, but neither majority political party has even mentioned any of these low-hanging fruits.

Not only that, but we can spend billions (we don't have) on bridges and roads but somehow we can't invest in nuclear energy which is the only reliable clean energy we have going forward. The Democrats did pass 'a green energy' bill here recently but it consisted of subsidies and payoffs to their friends in big tech. It was just a feeding trough for political donors.

Politicians here drop a sound bite here and there but on the political stage no one gives a rats ass about green energy. I'm not a greenie (I'm a conservative libertarian) but I do recognize we are stewards of our planet and currently we suck at that job.

 

I can tell you the new prime ministers actions are not enough, the energy companies are saying they are making hundreds of billions of pounds over and above and she wont have a windfall tax, the UK is well and truly going to freeze this winter

 

I wouldnt bother coming here, we all want to get out of here