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Re:Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas price... by jdhn on Monday September 27, 2021 @08:43AM (#28669964)
Unless all the heat in Europe switches over to electric powered, you're still going to have natgas crunches from time to time during the winter.
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Re:Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas price... by fmajid on Monday September 27, 2021 @10:42AM (#28671210)
The French government is massively subsidizing conversions from oil or gas furnaces to heat pumps, and their electricity is majority nuclear.
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Re:Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas price... by raxxorrax on Monday September 27, 2021 @09:43AM (#28670549)
Supply of gas isn't endangered currently, on the contrary. There are parties competing to sell ressources.

What drives energy prices in central Europe are investments in changing the infrastructure to renewable. Yes, that isn't cheap. But not really a crisis in the common sense. Some people would like to see the gas prices inflated perhaps.

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Re:Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas price... by nicoburns on Monday September 27, 2021 @08:54AM (#28670077)
This will happen eventually for climate change reasons, but I think it's going to take a while.
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