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The CEO of Investment Management Group, Blackstone Is Warning That ‘a Real Shortage of Energy’ Will Cause Social Unrest All Over the Planet
NOQ Report ^ | 10/28/2021 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 10/28/2021 8:27:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

We are facing an unprecedented global energy crunch. Demand for energy is continually rising, and the production of energy is not keeping pace. One of the biggest reasons for this is that large financial institutions have become extremely hesitant to fund any new energy projects that will add more carbon emissions to the environment. Instead, they want to fund projects that will help us transition to the new “green economy”, but meanwhile we are getting to a point where we will soon see widespread shortages of traditional forms of energy.

So now we all get to suffer. A lack of oil is pushing the price of gasoline to alarming heights, shortages of natural gas are already causing tremendous disruptions in Asia and Europe, we are being told that we are facing a propane “armageddon” this winter, and supplies of coal have dropped to dangerously low levels around the world.

In other words, we are potentially heading into the most painful global energy crisis in modern history. When CNN asked Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman about this, he openly admitted that we are “going to end up with a real shortage of energy”

Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman warned Tuesday that high energy prices will likely set off social unrest around the world. “We’re going to end up with a real shortage of energy. And when you have a shortage, it’s going to cost more. And it’s probably going to cost a lot more,” the private-equity billionaire told CNN International’s Richard Quest at a conference in Saudi Arabia.

When the power goes out, people are not going to be happy. And people are really not going to be happy if it goes out for an extended period of time. According to Schwarzman, we will soon see “very unhappy people” all over the globe…

“You’re going to get very unhappy people around the world in the emerging markets in particular but in the developed world,” Schwarzman said at the Future Investment Initiative. “What happens then, Richard, is you’ve got real unrest. This challenges the political system and it’s all utterly unnecessary.”

Sadly, he is right that this global energy crisis did not have to happen. If the global elite had continued to fund traditional energy projects at the pace that was needed, we could have avoided this nightmare to a very large degree. But traditional forms of energy are now being shunned, and billions of people will suffer as a result. Meanwhile, prices throughout our economic system continue to rise at a very alarming pace. Just check out what has been happening to the price of turkey

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, for example, released data recently showing the average wholesale price of Grade A frozen 8- to 16-pound turkey has spiked by 21.91% since last year. That means what cost $1.15 per pound a year ago will now ring at at $1.41. And just for context, the same would have cost 96 cents in 2019 and 84 cents in 2018.

If math isn’t your thing, that’s a 68% wholesale price increase in just two years.

Overall, we are being told that this upcoming Thanksgiving will be the most expensive Thanksgiving that any of us have ever experienced

Matthew McClure paid 20% more this month than he did last year for the 25 pasture-raised turkeys he plans to roast at the Hive, the Bentonville, Arkansas, restaurant where he is the executive chef. And Norman Brown, director of sweet-potato sales for Wada Farms in Raleigh, North Carolina, is paying truckers nearly twice as much as usual to haul the crop to other parts of the country.

“I never seen anything like it, and I’ve been running sweet potatoes for 38 or 39 years,” Brown said. “I don’t know what the answer is, but in the end it’s all going to get passed on to the consumer.”

Unfortunately, more price hikes are on the horizon. In fact, Kimberly-Clark is opening warning that they are going to be boosting prices even higher

Prices of toilet paper, diapers, facial tissues and paper towels will likely rise in coming weeks as Irving-based consumer giant Kimberly-Clark warned Monday that inflation and supply chain concerns aren’t “likely to be resolved quickly.”

So I would stock up on paper products while you still can. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, inflation is eventually going to get far worse than what we witnessed during the 1970s. At this point, even many top Democrats are warning that high inflation is with us to stay. Here is one recent example

Former President Barack Obama’s chief of global development on Tuesday predicted inflation was here to stay, despite the Biden administration’s protestations to the contrary.

Prices “will go higher, and the Fed has misread the inflation dynamics in a big way,” former Global Development Council Chairman Mohamed El Erian said in an afternoon interview with Fox News’ Sandra Smith, adding that the Federal Reserve was “still hostage to this notion that it’s transitory.”

And the shortages that we are currently experiencing are ultimately going to get worse too. Right now, we are already facing the worst shortage of alcoholic beverages since the 1930s. When asked about his empty shelves by a reporter, one gas station owner said that he has “never seen anything like this”

Supply chain issues are impacting the alcohol supply in the U.S., and it’s making alcohol more expensive and difficult for bars and liquor stores to get.

“I have so many empty shelves. In the two years of doing this, I’ve never seen anything like this,” gas station chain owner Ali Ali said.

As I discussed yesterday, now Biden wants to take countless more truck drivers off the road, and that will make our supply chain headaches a whole lot worse. And as energy prices escalate, that will push all prices throughout our economic system higher and higher and higher. Yes, all of this is really happening. This is not a drill.

We are in the early chapters of a full-blown economic meltdown of epic proportions, and nothing will ever be the same after this. If you want to keep waiting for conditions to “return to normal”, you are going to be waiting for a really, really long time. We have entered a truly horrible nightmare, and there will be no waking up from this.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackstone; energy; shortage; socialunrest
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1 posted on 10/28/2021 8:27:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

All part of the plan...Of course BR positioned all of it’s holdings in anticipation of their own announcement.


2 posted on 10/28/2021 8:30:29 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: SeekAndFind

Ironic, because they are the ones actually causing the global crisis.


3 posted on 10/28/2021 8:30:34 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: mad_as_he$$

BR=BS


4 posted on 10/28/2021 8:30:57 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: SeekAndFind

The White House will be spinning this like a dervish, as will the DNC. As the situation worsens, the lies will grow proportionately. They are capable of falsehoods of unlimited magnitude, and the pressure on the public will be increased, especially by big tech media. No criticism will be tolerated. Absolutely none.


5 posted on 10/28/2021 8:41:00 AM PDT by Spok (Who is George Soros?)
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To: SeekAndFind

The investment opportunities in coal, uranium, and oil have been 20 years in the making.

I suggest investors pay attention and get up to speed.


6 posted on 10/28/2021 8:41:31 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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To: SeekAndFind

Just a year or so ago we were energy independent. What in the wide, wide world of sports could have happened? 😕


7 posted on 10/28/2021 8:58:10 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

Gee who could have seen that coming? /s


8 posted on 10/28/2021 8:58:38 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The future of energy is LENR.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/lenr/index?tab=articles

The problem is, when this goes on line as the solution, people will be saying “peace and security”. 1 Thessalonians 5:3 tells us what happens next:

When they say, “There is peace and security,” destruction will strike them as suddenly as labor pains come to a pregnant woman, and they will not be able to escape.


9 posted on 10/28/2021 9:01:37 AM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: SeekAndFind

Need moar windfarms and solar panels.


10 posted on 10/28/2021 9:03:56 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Arrest and charge Anthony Fauci. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I like EAPCX for that.


11 posted on 10/28/2021 9:04:57 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Arrest and charge Anthony Fauci. )
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To: rktman

Biden set up his son and friends to make more money off the energy reserves that they control by artificially creating a shortage of energy being allowed to be exploited. this is what happens when Chorney capitalism is practiced.


12 posted on 10/28/2021 9:05:50 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: SeekAndFind
"...Grade A frozen 8- to 16-pound turkey has spiked..."

So of course, I'm thinking Punk Rock Turkey:


13 posted on 10/28/2021 9:11:03 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: SeekAndFind

I do not know what to believe anymore.

I live over top the 3rd largest gas reserves in the world Marcellus-Utica and the first half of this year they pumped out of the ground the largest amount of gas in the areas history..but there is supposed to be a shortage??

Employment shortages? Some peope have put out 30-40 applications and not a single response.

Im personally think we are going through the biggest scam on the American people in US history.

Hasbro announced yesterday they made a near record profit on toys sales that were 50% of the norm. Yeah they did this by only having 1/2 the employees and then bumped up their prices.


14 posted on 10/28/2021 9:17:53 AM PDT by setter
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This strongly suggests that BlackRock, along with Vanguard and State Street, are at heart, Technocracy, a world-ruling elite group which proclaims itself to be above Socialism, Communism and Capitalism, and regards Energy Credits as the primary form of economic trading. http://www.technocracy.news


15 posted on 10/28/2021 9:26:17 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: SeekAndFind
The CEO of Investment Management Group, Blackstone Is Warning That ‘a Real Shortage of Energy’ Will Cause Social Unrest All Over the Planet

Kind of think thats what the Marxists want.

16 posted on 10/28/2021 9:37:56 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Kevmo

Truth. The LORD is going to return with vengeance and the mockers and the scoffers, as always, will be blinded to it until the day closes on them like a trap.


17 posted on 10/28/2021 10:06:01 AM PDT by avenir
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To: setter

Lots of inexplicable, weird stuff going on.


18 posted on 10/28/2021 10:07:54 AM PDT by avenir
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To: SeekAndFind
a shortage, ONE YEAR after record exports, yeah right...


19 posted on 10/28/2021 10:14:11 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: SeekAndFind

These two Blackrock jagoffs Fink and Scwharzman have been part of the problem with their climate change agenda, pushing unreliable green energy and constantly using their hedge funds to lobby against fossil fuels. They are part of the problem.


20 posted on 10/28/2021 10:15:58 AM PDT by chuckee
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