cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/72557390
The agreement to release oil stocks comes amid growing concerns in Brussels about entering winter with low strategic reserves, and becoming more susceptible to what several EU officials described as US “blackmail”.
I don’t know, maybe they’ll slow walk it, but the pressure on governments is really high here too, because of the insane price of fuel. They’re enacting widespread subsidies on fuel, which is costing the taxpayer a shitload of money. And about 50-70% the oil companies take for themselves.
Anyway, did I mention that currently BEVs are pretty much the only cars being sold right now? We just got ours yesterday. It’s very nice. Don’t think we’ll ever go back.
Now, it’s just the natural gas heating (house owner already has plans for heat pump) and high-as-fuck prices of everything that we need to deal with.
I vote that trump compensates us for the money he is costing us Europeans being so shit at his job!
Make sure the heat pump is a ground-source one if you get real winters. Otherwise it’s only good for supplementary heating in the dead of winter unless it’s super overpowered for the size of the house. Mine is air since I got it mostly for cooling in the summer, it does the job in spring and autumn so I don’t have to burn any wood, but throwing 300€ a month at it only accounts for about a fifth of the heating effort in the cold part of the winter, need another ~400-500€ worth of firewood or briquettes to make up for the rest of it. Air to Water has a similar weakness as Air to Air and while those usually have resistive heating as a backup, that’ll quickly get you into 1000+ euro electric bill territory in the winter.
A totally predictable consequence of subsidies in a situation where supply is fundamentally limited.
well no then you still need the electricity
which is going to take a couple of decades and that is if China is willing to sell the materials
Yeah, but fundamentally it’s much less volatile and dependent. Wind energy is a local industry, but solar is dependent on China, that’s true.