"Fake ‘Environmentalism’ Fueled the Ukraine War" Yes, It is Related
The United States imports oil to the tune of millions of dollars a day, including from Russia (even as it invades Ukraine). As Bloomberg reported last year, Russia provides more oil to the United States than any other country, except Canada. Around 20 million barrels per month.
Fake ‘Environmentalism’ Fueled the Ukraine War
It’s tempting to laugh at Biden’s climate czar and devoted private jet customer John Kerry who complained to BBC Arabic that the Ukraine War could “distract the world from the climate change crisis and produce ‘massive emissions’ that will negatively impact the globe.”
Only it’s actually tragic—and not for the environment.
It’s tempting to laugh at Biden’s climate czar and devoted private jet customer John Kerry who complained to BBC Arabic that the Ukraine War could “distract the world from the climate change crisis and produce ‘massive emissions’ that will negatively impact the globe.”
The truth is that people like Kerry and many of his colleagues and predecessors who have been obsessed with the same supposedly imminent ecological disaster literally for decades now, are to blame as much as anyone—with the exception of Vladimir Putin, of course—for the carnage in Ukraine.
This environmental obsession obviously swept up our current president to such a degree that from the minute he was inaugurated he worked to reverse the American energy independence achieved under the Trump administration.
He succeeded and then some in less than a year.
Result: The United States imports oil to the tune of millions of dollars a day, including from Russia (even as it invades Ukraine). As Bloomberg reported last year, Russia provides more oil to the United States than any other country, except Canada. Around 20 million barrels per month.
This makes the so-called sanctions a pathetic sideshow—laughable, really.
As for most environmentalists, they are mostly moral narcissists signaling their own virtue. Few actually do much for their sainted environment other than buy a Tesla if they can afford one.
Nevertheless, as Bjorn Lomborg wrote in the Financial Post: “If the whole world follows through and gets to 140 million electric cars by 2030, the IEA [International Energy Agency] estimates that will reduce emissions by just 190 million tonnes of CO₂—a mere 0.4 percent of global emissions. In the words of Fatih Birol, head of IEA, ‘If you think you can save the climate with electric cars, you’re completely wrong.’”
In reality, barring some miraculous discovery, the whole world will be running on gas and oil for years to come, unless the environmentalists let us use the more efficient nuclear.
That oil—purchased by America, Germany, and many others—is fueling Russia’s attempt to reconstruct the old Soviet Union. Biden highlighted that in his speech, but he is greatly to blame.
He could have announced he was turning on the American energy spigots again, but he didn’t.
As I write this, the stock market is up as it has been, somewhat surprisingly, in the midst of this invasion.
Those in the know explain this as traders assuming the Federal Reserve will now have to restrain itself from raising rates. And there may be truth in that.
But I have another theory: The traders are looking at the sanctions agreed to by NATO members, including the United States, and see them as weak and pointless. They take that as a signal that business as usual will not be interrupted. Russia will go on selling tons of oil to the United States and the rest of the world.
Let the good times roll, Ukraine be damned.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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Comment by Willem Post on February 27, 2022 at 6:49pm
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US Futile Search for 200 bcm/y of Natural Gas Elsewhere
If Russian pipeline gas supply to the EU were interrupted, adequate quantities of gas would need to be found elsewhere.
The US stated, it is putting together a "global strategy" to increase gas production among allies, in case of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
"The State Department, led by Senior Adviser for Energy Security Amos Hochstein, has in the last six to eight weeks been putting together a global strategy exploring contingency options to redirect and increase gas supplies from different parts of the world, a senior US official said," CNN reports Sunday. “This has included talks with firms in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia”.
The next section shows how unlikely would be this “global strategy”
Up to 40% Additional LNG Carrier Loads, if Russian Pipeline Gas Supply to Europe were Stopped
Brussels career bureaucrats make the same myopic mistakes as Washington career bureaucrats
Washington Career Bureaucrats: The only beneficiaries of their “Electrify-Everything” actions are:
1) Subsidized, multi-billion companies that supply the wind and solar systems, and
2) Utilities, that sell much more high-priced electricity, due to implementing the tens of millions of heat pumps that do not work on colder days, and electric vehicle that have marginal usefulness and are very expensive, compared to efficient gasoline vehicles
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/poor-economics-of-elec...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/electric-bus-systems-l...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/heat-pumps-are-money-l...
Everyone else gets screwed with higher taxes, fees and surcharges, and higher household electric rates, as happened in Denmark and Germany.
People are told to grin-and-bear-it, and to sacrifice, because they are “fighting” climate change, a la Don-Quixote tilting at wind mills, while the wind/solar-subsidy-collecting elites cruise around in private jets and yachts.
Brussels Career Bureaucrats: They likely have little hands-on experience in the energy sector. They urged EU countries not to sign long-term gas supply contracts with Russia, because that would send the wrong “virtue signal” regarding “weaning the EU off fossil fuels”. Just google, if you find this incredible.
Their myopic decisions did not foresee EU spot prices for natural gas would become “volatile”, i.e., about 5 to 10 times the prices of Russian gas, under long-term contracts.
Naïve career bureaucrats likely thought Russia would supply enough gas to lower spot prices, but Russia did not.
Various folks, including Brussels bureaucrats did not take any blame for their stupidity.
Instead, they tried besmirching Russia, but the gas system operating data did not co-operate.
However, Russia made sure to reliably provide pipeline gas, to clients with signed long-term contracts, as confirmed by Brussels, Germany, Turkey, etc. i.e., Russia was not to blame for high spot prices.
Russia has no contractual obligation to supply gas to the EU spot market.
Russia has no contractual obligation to fill the EU above- and belowground gas storage reservoirs
This was known by Brussels career bureaucrats, prior to their myopic decisions.
The net result was Europe’s energy costs increased by at least $200 BILLION per year, which offsets any benefits from Europe’s international trade.
NOTE: There is some consolation in all this. After all, there is the important “benefit” of strengthening the US/UK/EU long-term policy of squeezing/diminishing Russia.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/luongo-eu-sanctions-russia-e...
LNG Consumption in Europe: Historically, the EU has imported very minor quantities of LNG, because LNG prices are about 25% to 30% higher than pipeline gas bought from Russia, under long-term contracts. That will always be the case, due to cost differences of applicable technologies.
The recent, cleverly-designed sanctions imposed on Russia did not include any restrictions on energy and materials flow from Russia to avoid additional price increases on world markets
Russia will make money, which will partially offset the cost of fighting in Ukraine, and of the long-lasting sanctions
The US/UK-led NATO will send more weapons and disguised trainers/mercenaries to Ukraine to increase the cost of fighting Ukraine
The end result will be more death and destruction lasting more than a few days.
Calculation of Additional LNG Carrier Loads
Assume an average LNG carrier capacity at 170,000 m3, equivalent to 76,500 metric ton of LNG
In 2020, world LNG demand was 360 million metric ton, equivalent to 4,706 LNG carrier loads/y. See URL
The 200 bcm/y of pipeline gas supply from Russia is equivalent to 1903 LNG carrier loads/y
There would need to be an enormous, worldwide increase in LNG carrier loads of about (4706 + 1903)/4706 = 40.4%, if Russian gas to the EU were stopped. See table
There would be a gigantic, additional strain on the world’s LNG system, which would send spot prices to unprecedented levels for many years.
At present, Europe lacks the capacity to receive and gasify that many carrier loads.
At present, there is a significant shortage of large-capacity LNG carriers
NOTE:
https://www.rivieramm.com/opinion/opinion/lng-shipping-by-numbers-3...
https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/natural-gas/liquefied-n...
Russian gas supply
billion m3/y
200
Carrier load, LNG
m3
170000
gal/m3, conversion factor
264.172
Carrier load, LNG
170000 x 264.172
gal
44909240
gal LNG/million Btu
12.1
Carrier load
449092240 x (10^6/12.1)
million Btu
3711507
Btu/cf, gas
1000
cf/m3, conversion factor
35.315
Btu/m3, gas
35315
Carrier load
3711507 x 10^6/35315
million m3
105
Carrier load
billion m3
0.105
Carrier loads/y
200 bcm/y/0.105
1903
Carrier loads/week
38
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 26, 2022 at 4:23pm
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Stolen elections have consequences.
Peter Schweizer:
Look at the situation in Europe right now. So the idea is, ‘We’re going to wed Russia to Europe by setting up these gas pipelines and creating this lucrative European market for Russia.’ The theory is [that] this is going to mean Russia’s not going to want to invade, because they don’t want to lose the market.The opposite has happened — Europe does not want to give up Russian gas. It has not deterred Russia. It has deterred the weak European democracies from taking strong action when they need to. So you know, they send a couple of helmets to Ukraine rather than military equipment, because they don’t want to have the gas shut off, or now they say, ‘We’re going to delay the Nord Stream pipeline,’ which, by the way, isn’t supposed to be certified til this summer anyway.
So all that this globalism has done is given these autocrats, these authoritarians, leverage over these weak, vassal democracies in the West that are fearful of doing anything offending these powers. Globalism has not only failed. It’s ended up doing the opposite of what it was supposed to do.
Schweizer has previously warned of and documented globalization’s facilitation of international corruption via foreign governments’ procurement of influence over U.S. affairs through establishing financial relationships with the children and family members of American politicians and other elites.
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2022/02/26/peter-schweizer-russian-...
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Meanwhile, Russia is doubling down on nuclear and providing reactors for other countries.
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/...
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Enviro groups like NRCM, Sierra Club etc. all accept Russian money for "Renewable" prognastilitizing as Putin laughs at his success in duping the naive west to push "Unreliable" low density wind/solar. He exports the gas! Russia funds its Ukrainian incursion with US and EU fossil fuel money they must pay because they wont produce it due to an ideology. He knows China is there for him with oil importation as well. .The United States imports oil to the tune of millions of dollars a day, including from Russia (even as it invades Ukraine!). As Bloomberg reported last year, Russia provides more oil to the United States than any other country, except Canada. Around 20 million barrels per month. The left cuts its pipelines,closes Nuclear sites and preaches Global demise; Putin grows Mother Russia off the farce of wind/solar and Global Warming.
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Comment by Long Islander on February 25, 2022 at 8:02pm
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PUTIN FUNDS AMERICA’S ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/putin-funds-america-s-...John Droz, Jr: Mainstream Environmental Groups, China and Russia All Subverting U.S. Energy Policies
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/john-droz-jr-mainstrea...Russia Linked to Anti-Fracking Movement , NRCM, Sierra Club, NRDC, Sea Change Foundation, Energy Foundation, Audubon
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/russia-linked-to-anti-...American Environmental Groups Funded by Russia
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/american-environmental...Here’s Why Russia Is Delivering Loads Of Natural Gas to Massachusetts
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/here-s-why-russia-is-d...Russia Used Social Media to Disrupt U.S. Energy Markets by Promoting Pipeline Protests, Climate Change Debate
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/russia-used-social-med...House Probes Russian Ads Seeking to Influence Energy Markets
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/house-probes-russian-a...Allegations US Environmentalists May Have Secretly Taken Russian Cash
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/allegations-us-environ...U.S. Congressmen Cite Evidence Russia ‘Colludes’ With US Environmental Groups
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/lawmakers-cite-evidenc...
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Excellent points by Roger Simon. I would not be surprised if China gets even bolder too:
"Last year, Taiwan recorded 969 incursions by Chinese warplanes into its ADIZ, according to a database compiled by AFP -- more than double the roughly 380 carried out in 2020. Taiwan's air force has suffered a string of fatal accidents in recent years as its ageing fleet is kept under constant pressure by China." from "https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/china-sends-2nd-largest-incursion-o....
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Meanwhile, over in China:
Elon Musk Can’t Get Enough of China: Tesla Plans to *Double* Production in Communist Country
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/02/25/elon-musk-cant-get-enough...
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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