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It's the difference between heating your house to 72 and walking around barefoot, or 68 and wearing a sweater and wearing loafers. Those are the tradeoffs. Nee

by trgn 4y ago

It's the difference between heating your house to 72 and walking around barefoot, or 68 and wearing a sweater and wearing loafers. Those are the tradeoffs. Need for indoor heating has a lot of stretch. In Europe, there's a ton of stretch on personal mobility too, since there are viable alternatives for the car. Europe can weather this crunch a lot better than America.

TMWNN 4y ago
>It's the difference between heating your house to 72 and walking around barefoot, or 68 and wearing a sweater and wearing loafers. Someone who actually believes the "just put a sweater on" rhetoric that even those who tried foisting it on the public quickly gave up on. Be sure to give your sage advice to the Germans and other Europeans who are this winter going to see gas bills rise 200-1000%. We've had, in the past month, a German minister stating that becoming dependent on Russian gas was a "grievous mistake", and that his country is begging for turbines from Canadian custody "with a heavy heart". His government stating that entire industries might "collapse". Rationing of gas announced. Local municipalities planning warm buildings that those without heat in their homes can visit during the winter. These are just a few of the many things that have happened that are part of the greatest German (and thus European) catastrophe in 80 years. >Those are the tradeoffs. Need for indoor heating has a lot of stretch. In Europe, there's a ton of stretch on personal mobility too, since there are viable alternatives for the car. It was obvious from your earlier stupendously cringeworthy "Ten years from now, Europeans will drive electric (if they'll drive at all)" comment that you are of that peculiar species known as Homo redditus, the type that believes in everything you read in /r/politics and /r/worldnews, but the above reinforces it. (No, Virginia, Europe isn't some sort of magical wonderland of public transportation everywhere from Ireland to Estonia to Greece to Portugal. Be sure to tell the rural Spaniard or Frenchman or Irishman how he no longer needs an automobile or two, and to the people commuting into Frankfurt or Milan or Antwerp by car that there's no reason why they've been doing so all this time so need to stop ASAP.) >Europe can weather this crunch a lot better than America. This is so, so wrong in every single way that it's hard to believe so much wrongness can be contained in ten words.

by trgn 4y ago

TMWNN 4y ago

>It's the difference between heating your house to 72 and walking around barefoot, or 68 and wearing a sweater and wearing loafers. Someone who actually believes the "just put a sweater on" rhetoric that even those who tried foisting it on the public quickly gave up on. Be sure to give your sage advice to the Germans and other Europeans who are this winter going to see gas bills rise 200-1000%. We've had, in the past month, a German minister stating that becoming dependent on Russian gas was a "grievous mistake", and that his country is begging for turbines from Canadian custody "with a heavy heart". His government stating that entire industries might "collapse". Rationing of gas announced. Local municipalities planning warm buildings that those without heat in their homes can visit during the winter. These are just a few of the many things that have happened that are part of the greatest German (and thus European) catastrophe in 80 years. >Those are the tradeoffs. Need for indoor heating has a lot of stretch. In Europe, there's a ton of stretch on personal mobility too, since there are viable alternatives for the car. It was obvious from your earlier stupendously cringeworthy "Ten years from now, Europeans will drive electric (if they'll drive at all)" comment that you are of that peculiar species known as Homo redditus, the type that believes in everything you read in /r/politics and /r/worldnews, but the above reinforces it. (No, Virginia, Europe isn't some sort of magical wonderland of public transportation everywhere from Ireland to Estonia to Greece to Portugal. Be sure to tell the rural Spaniard or Frenchman or Irishman how he no longer needs an automobile or two, and to the people commuting into Frankfurt or Milan or Antwerp by car that there's no reason why they've been doing so all this time so need to stop ASAP.) >Europe can weather this crunch a lot better than America. This is so, so wrong in every single way that it's hard to believe so much wrongness can be contained in ten words.