Europe’s Hormuz Armageddon
European political and intellectual elites have spent the past few decades pushing the risk of imminent Climate Armageddon. Some of us can still picture the young Joschka Fischer, a Leftist of the Greens party who took oath of office as Environment Minister in the German state of Hesse wearing sneakers and jeans in 1985.
Since then — in the name of Gaia, the Greek Goddess of Earth – they have bludgeoned their citizens and straightjacketed their once mighty corporate titans that dominated the global chemical, automotive and precision engineering industries through most of the 19th and 20th centuries. Germany’s Energiewende, the EU’s Green New Deal and the UK’s Climate Change Act unleashed punitive green mandates and carbon taxes. The Obama and Biden administrations joined Brussels in setting virtuous examples of ‘climate leadership‘, a defining criterion of energy policy in Western Europe and the US with the significant exception of President Trump’s two administrations. China, India and Russia and others in the Global South went along with the virtuous ride, but only so far as necessary to benefit from the promise of climate finance and reparations.
To read the rest of this article, you need to donate at least £5/month or £50/year to the Daily Sceptic, then create an account on this website. The easiest way to create an account after you’ve made a donation is to click on the ‘Log In’ button on the main menu bar, click ‘Register’ underneath the sign-in box, then create an account, making sure you enter the same email address as the one you used when making a donation. Once you’re logged in, you can then read all our paywalled content, including this article. Being a Donor will also entitle you to comment below the line and access the premium content in the Sceptic, our weekly podcast. A one-off donation of at least £5 will also entitle you to the same benefits for one month. You can donate here.
There are more details about how to create an account, and a number of things you can try if you’re already a donor – and have an account – but cannot access the above perks on our Premium page.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
Death, taxes and the fact that this apology for a government will do the wrong thing are life’s certainties.
And the last Govt.
Sadly this is an accurate summary. I would add to this the potential closure of the Suez Canal. This accounts for a large amount of trade and would cause yet further misery. the affect on trade will be dreadful.
As stated Europe has systematically hollowed out its once mighty industrial base and is now hell bent on destroying what is left. This has been worsened by collectivist policies, the effect of which ultimately averages out the ability to be competitive and makes matters worse.
The inability of Europeans to understand geopolitics is obvious when people refuse to listen to sane voices such as John Mearsheimer and many others.
Add in the 2014 coup in Ukraine and the loss of Russian energy supplies and fertilisers to the Israeli/US instigated catastrophe unfolding in West Asia, the situation for Europe is bleak. America will come off a little better but they will be badly hit once the Petrodollar loses its positive affect on their economy. There are no winners in the west.
For those who may be interested, England has enough Polyhalite (which is used for fertiliser) under the ground to supply the entire world for at least 50 years. There is also a major mining project in Yorkshire to extract this called Woodsmith. This project is a major mining project that breaks mining records on so many levels. Unfortunately it has been delayed by Nimbyism, planning constraints and no doubt lack of support if not government obstruction. I doubt that our useless government will step in to get this project up and running as soon as possible in order to ensure that we can feed our own people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLpSMD0pG5A
Thank you. Never heard of this before. Isn’t nitrogen an important part of chemical fertiliser? Does that have to come from other sources?
I believe not but I think they mentioned it somewhere in the video.
No indeed, the government won’t allow it. That Woodsmith is similar to Wentworth Woodhouse is particularly pitiful and poignant.
Ed Miliband – today’s reincarnation of Manny Shinwell, particularly when he was Minister for Fuel and Power, in 1946. He, like Mad Ed, despised free enterprise and all the wealth and life which sprang from it.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Jo sense fe i tu sense sol els dos no som res.
Sun and faith. We’re gonna need a lot of both to get through this.
Shinwell was one of the “Greats” of the Labour Party, as usual bloody useless. Another one was Tony Benn, destroyed the British car industry by creating British Leyland, another disaster. These shysters have been sabotaging our industries since 1945.
The globalists seeking world control are well on their way to gaining control of an empty basket otherwise known as F A.
“….US can still calibrate exports to shield domestic gasoline prices ahead of US mid-term elections.” But are they actually doing that? Plenty of reports that retail prices have ramped up a lot in most states there.
Another feature of the physics of hydrocarbons is that there is a lot of variation, and related prices per grade classification – light, heavy, sweet, sour etc. The arrangement of the processing industries, and their geographical location is also relevant.
Britain, I believe, gets most of its oil needs (sweet) from America, Norway and Nigeria. I don’t know about Germany, France, Holland etc.
Uncle Sam’s main competitor (economically and militarily) China, get the majority its oil from the Gulf.
If Trump had got his swift regime change putting a puppet government in place in Iran then America would effectively control the Strait of Hormuz and its oil flow. Israel would become the regional power.
Was this really about weapons of mass destruction?
None of this makes sense, I’m afraid.
If Europe has spent years switching to wind and solar energy away from oil and gas it should be less vulnerable, not more to an oil shock.
If European leaders keep telling their populations that they need to shift even more quickly away from hydrocarbons in order to save the “climate”, then this is a golden opportunity to get the acceleration they want, not a crisis.
Unless of course solar and wind aren’t actually proper substitutes for oil and gas and they’ve been gaslighting us the entire time with their CO2 guilt tripping.
You mean solar and wind- lighting us. Gaslighting would be a violation of the cult of Net Zero.
I suspect the ‘save the climate’ drumbeat is just the current set of politicians being unwilling to end Net Zero – for fear of exposing their failure to resist the green conmen.
Yes, nice point. There’s definitely an aspect of “stupidity entrenched because stopping it would demonstrate how stupid we are” to this. See also – lockdowns.
I think Einstein said “There are two things that are infinite: the Universe and Human Stupidity – although I admit I’m not absolutely sure about the Universe”
If wind and solar were useful, they would indeed be less vulnerable. Electricity is 20% of total energy demand, and intermittent supplies of weather-dependent electricity have to be backed up by power stations.
I think you’re onto something there, old chap!
As Trotsky used to say, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
If only someone, anyone, could have seen how vulnerable Net Zero et al would make us…
Net Zero brains is what our elites have demonstrated.
Hormuz, the battlefield where greenwashing politicians send us all to die.
The Green Emperor has no clothes. And more an more people are noticing the fact.
“Throw off the Net Zero Yoke” – too much?
This is The Great Reset in action.
It is being imposed on us via deliberately-created energy vulnerability. Before long we’ll get fuel restrictions and what will effectively be a “Protect our Public Services Lockdown.”
Then there will be riots in our oh-so-enriched cities and then we’ll get the “martial law” they are desperate to impose on us.
I agree up to the “martial law” bit. Who is going to be doing the policing? There is no-one, not even what remains of the military with the numbers or fortitude required to do such a thing. People who don’t want to live under such a system can be very, very determined and extremely resourceful.
It’s unfortunate for the government that it doesn’t have hundreds of thousands of military-aged men sat around in barracks and hotels that could be rapidly trained to do the policing work /s
Oh! cONspiRaCY THeoRIst!
They trialled it during the Covid Tyranny. 80% meekly went along with the suspension of their civil liberties.
Once again, fans of the current US administration misrepresent the policy of the previous two Democrat-controlled US administrations as ‘European.’ This suggests that they still think they can avoid beating their domestic political enemies at home by playing shell-games about ‘abroad’ or possibly rather, that they’re simply not up to the real task and prefer making enemies to distract from that over seeking allies to help with accomplishing it.
Unless the Trumpians get out of this self-defeating games of lies, they’ll end up as another impotent political mayfly because the next Democrat administration which will surely come is just going to revert everything and since Trump is intent on pissing off everyone except the certainly secretly chuckling geopolitical rivals of the USA, everyone will just breathe a sigh of relief and continue with ante-donald business as usual.
This will then have become a great opportunity wasted because of the inability of the US key players to reign in on their egos even when it would benefit a worthwhile cause.
Net Zero has Killed Europe
We’re not dead yet!
Chiña is still getting its oil, in exchange for weapons or their components ? Europe Blocking imports from China would soon see them telling their Iranian friends to open the shipping lane.