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Two counterpoints: - Isn't the current gas shortage just Putin trying to ram through Nordstream 2? - Isn't it great to have high prices fossil energy sources

• Ericson2314 5y ago
  It is great the price has gone up. What's bad is people are buying it anyways. The price needs to be high, sure, but also too high, in that demand is scared off and consumption/revenue goes down. Sadly, the price is not too high at the moment by that definition. > Isn't the current gas shortage just Putin trying to ram through Nordstream 2? I have no idea. What I noticed is not even a gas shortage, but a wind shortage driving up demand for gas.
• masklinn 5y ago
  > Two counterpoints: > - Isn't the current gas shortage just Putin trying to ram through Nordstream 2? Is "fossil fuels are a geopolitical weakness" really a counterpoint to "fossil fuels are kinda shit"? And that geopolitical weakness is exactly why france built lots of nukes in the first place, it was not ecological (though that's a nice side-effect), it was for energy and geopolitical independence, and though it fails somewhat in that uranium ore still needs to be procured, it's much easier to stockpile uranium ore than fossil fuels, and the available sources are much more varied: the main known reserves are in Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada, Namibia, South Africa.