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Europe’s High Energy Prices Are Just The Beginning
Oil price ^ | Sep 06, 2021, | Julianne Geiger -

Posted on 09/09/2021 1:08:06 PM PDT by george76

European energy prices might be at record levels, but there is still room for prices to run...

Of course, natural gas prices are soaring everywhere—not just in Europe. The U.S. benchmark price for natural gas has nearly doubled over the last year,

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U.S. gas exports are soaring more, hitting all-time records.

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Germany is battling the highest inflation since 2008, thanks to higher energy prices.

Typically, demand for natural gas this time of year is still low.

Today’s high prices, at a time when demand is typically low, are worrisome for Europe, which is now looking at a difficult winter, with natural gas inventories at painfully low levels.

The situation isn’t helped any by wind power.. paving the way for higher coal consumption.

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Some estimates see retail consumers paying 20% more for utility bills.

Julien Hoarau, head of Engie SA’s analytics unit EnergyScan, said that Europe’s problems haven’t even started yet.

(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Germany; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bills; coal; electricity; energy; energyprices; gas; naturalgas; power; prices; utility; utilitybills; wind

1 posted on 09/09/2021 1:08:06 PM PDT by george76
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Coming here too! Along with brownouts and rolling blackouts. Thanks eco-nazis!


2 posted on 09/09/2021 1:10:17 PM PDT by BipolarBob ("We the people" needs to be re-read, not reinterpreted.)
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The U.S. benchmark price for natural gas has nearly doubled over the last year

but its still not even at average levels from 1999-2010, before the "shale revolution" started.

America and europe's elites, their banks and largest investment funds are very much against "fossil fuels" so drilling is way down. Just wait until all-time price records are reached.

3 posted on 09/09/2021 1:17:14 PM PDT by PGR88
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Trust the BiXiden-Rooskie Pipeline.


4 posted on 09/09/2021 1:17:24 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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But..but...they have WIND, they have SOLAR and they just CARE more.

What happened? I AM agHAST!


5 posted on 09/09/2021 1:24:39 PM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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Guess they are going to have to institute an EU-wide Green Energy Plan to capture, package and distribute high methane cow farts to the unwashed masses this Winter.


6 posted on 09/09/2021 1:54:23 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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Those Syrian pipelines we went to war over didn’t fix it? Well we are re-invading A-stan, they have pupeline potential. American lives and dollars for Euroweenie gas..The sequel


7 posted on 09/09/2021 2:21:21 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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The UK fired up an old coal power plant to meet its electricity needs.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3992628/posts


8 posted on 09/09/2021 2:34:19 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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The UK fired up an old coal power plant to meet its electricity needs.

I find it so ironic that Leftists hated Margaret Thatcher so much, due to her battle with Arthur Scargill and Labour over coal-mine shutdowns. At the time of the last UK coal strike in 1984, the UK had 173 coal mines, all of which have shut down. 13 newer pits are all that remain of the UK coal industry.

Yet she, more than anyone, by simply letting economic common-sense work, reduced the UK's "carbon footprint" away from "dirty" coal.

9 posted on 09/09/2021 2:41:29 PM PDT by PGR88
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Oy-Rope is going to get that cheap Rooskie Gas, thanks to BiXiden.


10 posted on 09/14/2021 5:59:11 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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