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Hi guys,

Please remember of EU dependency on petroleum products. So best way to buy european is to reduce its use when possible :

The United States main EU supplier of oil and petroleum products, Norway of natural gas and Australia of solid fossil fuels in 2023 In 2023, 49% of the extra-EU imports of oil and petroleum products originated from 5 countries: the United States (15%), Norway (12%), Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan (both 8%) and the United Kingdom (7%). A similar analysis shows that 71% of the EU's imports of natural gas came from Norway (27%), the United States (19%), Algeria (14%) and Russia (11%), while the biggest solid fossil fuel (mostly coal) imports originated from Australia (24%), followed by the United States (23%), Colombia (17%) and South Africa (13%).

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[โ€“] 0x0@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Venezuela has quite a lot of it, but needs refinement and the US insists "they're communists" โ€“ maybe now people will try to use critical thinking and reliable sources to figure out why Latin America is a shambles but I doubt it.

[โ€“] bassad@jlai.lu 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Let's find a way to cut thoose massive oil & GNL imports :

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=USA-EU_-_international_trade_in_goods_statistics

And that is valid with Russia too, UE still send more billions to them than to Ukraine :