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> What’s more, this spring in Germany, fears of energy blackouts were deemed to be a far-right conspiracy theory, Not only in Germany, unfortunately. Radio Fre
by paganel 4y ago
> What’s more, this spring in Germany, fears of energy blackouts were deemed to be a far-right conspiracy theory,
Not only in Germany, unfortunately. Radio Free Europe (a US-government supported media institution) was saying just that on its Romanian website [1], together with accusations of fake news, around a year ago.
[1] https://romania.europalibera.org/a/pana-de-curent-fake/31543649.html https://romania.europalibera.org/a/pana-de-curent-fake/31543...
- carlmr 4y agoThe question is _why_ they were predicting energy blackouts. I don't remember anyone mentioning Russia cutting off gas. If somebody says something which turns out to be correct, but for the wrong reasons, can we really call them correct in hindsight?
- paganel 4y agoThe natural gas prices were already beginning to go through the roof, they were at about the same level (slightly lower, even) compared to now.
- carlmr 4y agoBut they are quite low right now, because of the warmer than expected weather. So these would be normal prices, and not indicative of an energy problem if you didn't know about the circumstances.