Man if only there was some type of Domestic energy source that could have also benefited the climate and folks are pressuring for. If that existed then Europe wouldn’t find itself caught between two different Super Powers looking to rule the world
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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The signs where obvious way before this shit show. Cloudflare, crowd strike and all the others where merely warnings - yet Europe found itself too shallow minded once again.
Centralization is what caused this to even occur - this would've been preventable if the leaders actually looked at the signs.
While you are not wrong here I was more trying to hint at Green Energy which folks (even myself) were yelling to adopt when it came to Russia invading.
The US accounts for 10% of UK gas consumption, with the other 90% being domestic production or imports from Norway.
Natural gas is usage is split (approximately) between electricity generation (35%), domestic heating (35%), services (13%) and industry (13%) .
If we lost that US 10% and took it entirely out of electricity generation, we'd lose about 28% of our gas powered generation. Just 28.6% of our electricity was gas powered in the last 12 months. So we'd have an 8% shortfall overall.
I think we're scheduled to bring online enough wind generation in the next 12 months alone to counteract that. Between Dogger Bank wind farm and Hinckley Point C nuclear this isn't a huge problem at least for the UK. We also are on a downward trend of electricity consumption.
Yes, relative to what they were before US imports are up massively because we needed to switch sources. However we're becoming more and more energy independent through renewables, not less so.
The United States is attempting to corner the global fossil fuel market. The correct response here is the very thing that will mitigate the impact of climate change: pursue renewable energy.
Absolutely nobody could have seen this coming ...... lmao
Maybe it's our turn to "not invade" Venezuela to get our hands on ~~that sweet sweet oil~~ those drug lords?