US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
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US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
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hollow-moe · · focus · HN ↗
ShadowOfThePit · · focus · HN ↗
Why must the energy transition be "move fast and break everything" while the industry and households suffer under the strain of high prices?
It could have been so smooth, it could have gone so well, but the world went mad...
surgical_fire · · focus · HN ↗
It solidifies further that the US is an enemy to Europe, a hostile country that has a desire to undermine and destroy us.
> What if supply stays low and prices stay high?
This will have the long term benefit of making EU countries rely less and less on a commodity that it has no control over.
> and Russia takes the chance to invade while Europe has nothing to power their industry and tanks?
Russia can't even fight a respectable war against Ukraine. Now that Ukraine gets to actually blow refineries in Russia and explode shit in Moscow, even less so.
> Why must the energy transition be "move fast and break everything" while the industry and households suffer under the strain of high prices?
That's how changes happen. Without challenges everyone stays complacent.