Topic: Germans are looking to firewood for energy as natural gas prices soar - page 4. (Read 4273 times)

I wonder how Japan and SouthKorea were managing to catch up with others with only LNG gas imports, I don't see any Nord Pacific pipeline, I don't see any gas reserves near any of the and miraculously enough, SK matches Germany for example in steel production and Jpan has a 3 times higher number in tons. How the f is this even possible, it might be caused,well who owns, maybe even at these inflated prices most of the stuff Germany produce is in that high demand that the increase in cost will easily be absorbed by the market?

Something must be happening cause:


German exports surge to record level in June

Might it be possible that's because the eggsperts that have not ever set foot in Europe, nor do they held any degree or even basic education in economics other that one minute search on Wikipedia are wrong? 

I see you habitually blame Russia for everything. However, here it is appropriate to ask the question "who benefits?"

Member of the European Parliament from Poland, former Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski thanked the United States for blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline.

I watch a terrorist country, continues its economic terror, and for the next round of intimidation of Germany and the EU with tales of a "hard winter", it blew up its gas pipelines
Well, what can I say ... So much the better - the rest will be less likely to pay a terrorist country
It turned out that in order to solve the gas issue, in the most gas-dependent terrorist country, Germany, it is enough to launch only 2 terminals for receiving LNG! By the way, the construction of one terminal has already begun, the second one is about to begin.
Coming soon on all shelves of bookstores, the new bestseller - "Russia - the best practice of shooting yourself in the leg and other parts of your body"

Even before WW2, Germany had the best technology in fields such as heavy engineering and automobiles. The only drawback was that apart from small deposits of lignite (Braunkohle), they don't have any resources of coal, oil or gas. The ruling class found the ideal solution by forming trade relations with the USSR. Cheap energy imports from the USSR propelled Germany as an industrial power. If they were dependent on expensive LNG, they would have never achieved this success. It is plain and simple. German industries need cheap gas and they will never be profitable with super-costly LNG.

Germany is a great country - it's stupid to dispute or deny. After the total defeat in 1945, after 25 years it became the world economic and technological leader. But as the people say, "the family has its black sheep." The only problem is that since the 70s, instead of continuing development on mutually beneficial terms, the top of Germany "befriended", and to be honest, sold out to the Kremlin terrorists. And then, to please their interests, Germany's energy security was sold to Gazprom. I am sure that the time is not far off when the "actions" of both Schroeder and Merkel and other high-ranking German politicians will be investigated, and we will learn a lot of new things from the field of political prostitution of German politicians ...

Every country creates trouble for themselves when they are unable to power the industry they require for a robust economy.  The politics of why and how it might happen they are vulnerable on the lack of energy is only a matter of when it will occur because there will always be a reason.   The whole of europe became lapse in not seeing they had failed to provide long term a strategy to have energy under every circumstance, doesnt matter the policy disagreements just that they can happen and its not reasonable for any country to be forced into being reliant on others to that extent.  Poor planning has consequences.

Well, what are you like!? You know very well - Azerbaijan returns to its bosom, its historical territories, and the people support them and want to return to Azerbaijan. In the same place, the Armenians banned the Azerbaijani language, and they are oppressing the Azerbaijanis. This is a peacekeeping operation to save and protect the Azeri-speaking population 

I'm more interested about why Germany is currently helping the invaders. I'm not talking a bout Russia but Azerbaijan and the weapons they've been sending them over the past month to invade Armenia. Apparently in German policy invading another country is only bad if Russia is doing not when some others do it. LOL

For the "capture of Odessa" Russian disposable soldiers were awarded black plastic bags. Not all true. Some Black Sea gobies and shrimps eat up

PS. But still, we will miss you. Honestly, I'll remember you as a cool opponent. Well, as it is customary for us to help our country in everything - please - when you are called and taken to the front, do not forget to put sunflower seeds or some beautiful grass in the pockets of the form

This is great, in my collection of personal achievements there is not enough medal "For the capture of Odessa".

A great example of what they call "turn on the fool"

Most of the carriers of fake Russian propaganda went silent, carrying the themes: "without racist gas, everyone will freeze", "Germans will be heated with firewood", "Europe will end without Russian resources" And the connection is direct - you need to hide somewhere away from civilization in order not to get a summons to the army
By the way, I see you have not been called, yet! But there will be a chance, definitely - after all, we know very well that 300 thousand "partial mobilization of one-time Russians" is only a part of the general plan of 1.2 million bodies by the end of 2023
To be honest, I will miss you, with your sparkling humor about the greatness of Russia and, of course, about gas and oil

What to say? I do not understand how the partial mobilization announced in Russia is connected with firewood in Germany.

If I remain silent for too long, then I have changed the keyboard to a Kalashnikov assault rifle and went on a Ukrainian safari.

Somehow surprising, but the second day, pro-Russian propagandists, everywhere and even here, fell silent. What a successful mobilization of "consumables" does! Just a miracle! Now there is no time to write about the greatness of Russia, and about the problems of Germany, now there is only one problem - to hide from the prize in the miserable army of the terrorist country ))) This is the whole of Russia - its "exaggerated" greatness, the same exaggerated "heroism", "strength", "powerful economy" - as soon as a real, even a small problem appears, everything collapses like a house of cards. And what is important - all those who yesterday wanted to turn the United States, the EU and Ukraine into radioactive ashes, and promised to punish and destroy everyone, when they got a real chance to take up arms and go to war for the idiotic goals of the "Kremlin rubber ass" - massively cowardly whined and sleeping under the bed

You're not trying to the context of my post ser. You say, "Russia waged an economic war". Yes, but that fault is not on the Russian people. It's obviously on the Russian government. Everything about the current crisis in Europe is on the government, from BOTH sides of the economic war. The people, Russian, Ukrainian, German and those from other European countries have merely become the casualties.

Old and rotten wood isnt good for burning and heating. Such logs are damaged, empty inside. They are good as woodchips, to start a fire quickly. They burn quick, "produce" smoke and dont give any warmth. In most cases they are useless. They are like garbage, and in the end they will only pollute environment. Only softwood trees are suitable for heating. Oak, birch, alder are the best, but these trees arent on first places by speed of growing stats.

USA's pullout from Afghanistan was insignificant to the global economy, because Afghanistan has no major natural resources. COVID, even at it's peak didn't resulted in an economic recession. And the Russia-Ukraine war is having a limited impact on natural gas prices, but apart from that it's impact is also limited. Biden's win in POTUS elections of 2020 November has contributed the most to the global economic downturn. His stupid economic policies pushed up the crude oil prices from $40 per barrel to $100 per barrel and discouraged new investment in oil/gas sector. In top of this, the multi-trillion USD stimulus measures have contributed significantly to the rising inflation rates.

Read my post. My issue is not with the German people, because like all of the other people from other countries, whether it's Ukranian, Russian, or American, they are all good, hard-working, and they love their countries. My issue is with the government, and their policies.

Plus "war-time economy" to start in Europe if the European Comission's proposal for emergency powers is approved. The proposal includes giving the government the right to "ask" private companies to expand or repurpose their production lines, https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5443

Maybe it's not very pleasant for Ukrainians to have Russians as a neighbours. Were they or any post-soviet countries satisfied with being a part of soviet union? No, so they want to get away from but you want to keep them so the war has started. If the quality of life and other criteria were high in Russia, I believe your neighbours would wish to be with you.

I think I feel more free in Germany than in Russia. When I was there in late 90s/ yearly 2000s when I was a kid, it was not safe there. There were a lot of drunk people in Moscow streets, Milizia was constantly stopping my father and mother and they were releasing us after getting some $ from us. And it was happening very often.
I have some good memories from there too, one thing to say for sure, there was a huge respect toward me, toward kids and children in overall. I was white and a little blonde with blue eyes, so when my mom or father was with me, they weren't stopping us or if they would stop and I would start crying or would look afraid, they were immediately going away from us.
My father is a very honest person and in Russia he was working as an engineer, but before that, as a builder. He was working with serious people and he was very appreciated for hard work and honesty. But outside of work, milizia was always trying to get money from us, can say the same on criminals in districts, so we were charged from both of them.

That's true, Germany does have natural resources available that scale from natural gas to coal, but is it enough to supply their population's growing energy needs? Are the policy makers making the right policies to actually use those resources and be independent from foreign countries for their energy needs? I'm not trying to disprespect Germany, and people from Germany, but the answer is "I believe not".

They kind of shooting themselves in the foot.
It must be one of the dumb strategies to corner a country that is not just equipped with nukes but also its source of energy, why they did not think Putin will cut the gas supply is just a bad calculation. The war started and they all sanction each other.

But don't you think freezing Germans to death is murder?