Source:
https://boereport.com/2021/12/22/dont-lose-your-mind-reading-mainstream-energy-chronicles-try-these-for-immediate-relief/
... "from an energy perspective, we seem to be witnessing a global and utter abandonment of sense, an incomprehensible flailing at the sky as the world’s governments and institutions try to find a way to deal with energy reality in a way that won’t contradict the anti-hydrocarbon messages they’ve been consistently repeating for years.
... on the first day in office, Biden made a big scene of crushing Keystone XL like a cockroach, to wild cheers from his newly gathered brain trust.
Eighteen months later, looking shell-shocked and not a day under 120, President Biden was imploring OPEC+ to produce more oil.
... When OPEC wouldn’t play, Biden dramatically walked over to the Strategic Petroleum Reserves’ tap, gathered the media around, and said “watch this” as he cranked it open.
Nothing of any significance happened; the market didn’t even seem to want that crude, and, in fact, oil prices jumped.
... But that’s not the craziest energy scene.
That title goes to Germany.
... Germany is facing record power prices due in part to the European lack of natural gas, the requirement to burn coal, and the record prices for coal also. ...
... Germany (is) playing political games with Russia by refusing to allow Russian gas to flow through the completed Nordstream 2 pipeline, a pipeline that would alleviate some pending and very significant hardship coming soon as winter sets in.
... (meanwhile) Russia is making a stupefying fortune selling the stuff to a starved Europe through older pipelines at prices in excess of $30 US/mmbtu).
... at the end of this year Germany will shut down three perfectly good nuclear reactors.
... To shut these reactors down in the middle of winter, in the middle of a Europe-wide energy shortage, is unconscionable, but that’s what you get when ideology trumps reason.
... As energy madness has accelerated, the web of disbelief is spreading. A few years ago, it seemed that only hydrocarbon industry people were willing to timidly put up a hand here and there to say, “That isn’t gonna work.”
... Every day it seems there are more energy realists around, and not just from North America.
... high quality commentators are Lyn Alden (a genius macro thinker), Alexander Stahel (Swiss energy commentator), Javier Blas (same from Spain), Blair King, Michael Shellenburger, Tracy Shuchart, Brynne Kelly, Alex Epstein, Ted Nordhaus, Bjorn Lomborg, Dave Yeager, Arjun Murti, Irina Slav, Brad Hayes, Maureen McCall, Deidra Garyk
... Follow these people, and our local talented Canadian energy writers, and you will see that the debate around the energy transition is coming into a much more intelligent focus. ... "