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> But what's actually beyond me is the existence of Europeans that demand more fossil fuels. It is double ridiculous because EU doesn't even have these fossil r
by barbazoo 1y ago
> But what's actually beyond me is the existence of Europeans that demand more fossil fuels. It is double ridiculous because EU doesn't even have these fossil resources at any viable scale. It is largely imported, they must be on the payroll of US and Russia or very stupid.
> IMHO EU should just drop everything and do China level or even beyond transition to Solar and similar.
If I find myself finding obvious "errors" in other people's plans and easy solutions they "just" have to implement then I'm usually missing something.
Europe's strategy to tie themselves economically to Russia for the purpose of peace didn't work out but a lot of the infrastructure and energy investments were made when that was the strategy. The other thing is that you're talking about electricity, fossil fuels have thousands of uses so you can't "drop everything".
- elzbardico 1y agoEurope didn't tie themselves to Russian fossil fuels for the purpose of peace. They bought the cheapest energy available to them, and this was the basis of their economy. You can't just compete with oil and gas coming out of a pipeline, regardless what a computer programmer may believe about energy policy and electrical grids.
- barbazoo 1y agoAs someone that grew up in Europe it was clear to me and as far as I could tell every one around me that the economic, cultural, etc integration after the cold war was to develop a rules based relationship with Russia to reduce the risk of another war. To a lesser extend but similar to how European countries tightly integrated with each other on all levels making an armed conflict less likely than otherwise.