Pissing it up the wall is exactly what the Netherlands did with it's now bygone wealth of natural gas. It's why the Netherlands (cold, cloudy, wet climate) is

Pissing it up the wall is exactly what the Netherlands did with it's now bygone wealth of natural gas. It's why the Netherlands (cold, cloudy, wet climate) is Europe's primary bell-pepper, tomato, cucumber etc producer all year through. It's why it's the largest producer of mushrooms worldwide. Has massive cut-flower exports all year long. Energy for greenhouses and mushroom farms is provided for basically free. Ironically, now that the gas is (economically) finished, the government is essentially buying Russian and Norwegian gas with tax money (not literally, but through subsidies). So your Dutch tomatoes (aside from being tasteless) or the mushrooms on your pizza are for a large part this cheap because Dutch taxpayers paid for the energy to grow them.