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Re:Explosion at US natural gas plant raises risk of shortage... by rsynnott on Saturday June 11, 2022 @01:46PM (#31706399)
“Whatever fossil fuels exist in the continent”

That’d be coal. Which Europe produces some of, but was importing from Russia until a few months ago. In general, it is not like Europe has a big pile of practically exploitable-in-reasonable-time fossil fuels that it isn’t using.

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Re:Explosion at US natural gas plant raises risk of shortage... by schroeding on Saturday June 11, 2022 @01:59PM (#31706542)
Yeah, even if we had enough coal, we would need something like coal liquefaction in massive scale to at least somewhat replace russian gas and oil - can't use a (ICE) car or a gas burner with coal briquettes or coal powered electricity.
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Re:Explosion at US natural gas plant raises risk of shortage... by jbay808 on Saturday June 11, 2022 @01:54PM (#31706491)
There's also Dutch natural gas, but they've been limiting production due to seismic stability concerns.
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