Energy Prospectus

Washington Times: A woke, green future means soaring energy costs, blackouts, food shortages and more unemployment

"The green-energy future has arrived – in Europe – and it is not a pretty sight. Even more than in the U.S., many European politicians claimed that it was possible to go “green” without disastrous costs – but that lie has now come home. Natural gas and electricity prices have been surging as supply is being artificially restricted. The winds in the North Sea stopped blowing two weeks ago, the wind turbines stilled, and U.K. energy prices surged “to 11 times normal levels.”

Conclusion: "If you want to know what the unbridled “green future” will look like, watch Europe with soaring energy costs, blackouts, food shortages, and increasing unemployment and poverty."

Read more: https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021 ... costs-bla/

If we had an honest press in the US there would be a lot more articles like this.

Gas-starved Europe can't look west as U.S. faces its own crunch . Bloomberg
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Investors see natural-gas crunch spilling into crude market, lifting oil prices . Wall Street Journal
A shortfall in global energy supplies is spilling into crude markets and could add momentum to this year’s rally in oil prices, investors say. Even though it ended Tuesday’s session lower, Brent crude, the global gauge of oil prices, is near its highest level in three years and traded above $80 a barrel early in the day.