The coming collapse of everything.

[oggbashan]

I almost stopped reading at no.1
I freakin' hate it. All this crass manipulation and deflection.
Laypeople aren't as stupid as you intellectuals think they are, they know it's BOTH Russia and how the West .

Otherwise, 2-3 are awesome , taa



how come 4?

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Supply chain problems. Not enough truck drivers and increased cost of fuel because of 1. However 1 is caused it has a massive financial effect.

The West did not invade Ukraine. They did not invade Russia. There was an agreement with Russia that in exchange for Ukraine giving up their nuclear weapons Ukraine's borders would be guaranteed by Russia, who broke that agreement in 2014.

 

[Comshaw]

Fertility rates are falling worldwide and doing so precipitously. If current trends continue the world population will fall to approximately half of what it is now by the year 2150. Contrary to what JE believes to be true, this is occurring in third world and undeveloped nations as well.

Looking at this from the bright side there will be less energy required and therefore less pollution. Food requirements dramatically decreased meaning less pressure on the arable lands. More space for everyone every where. The benefits of a severely reduced human population are legion.

As always though, there is a downside. Unintended consequences as it were. At what point does the collapse of the population bring with it a collapse of society as well? What is the minimum population required t

And the proof, substantiation of your claim, is where? If it were true the world population clock would be running backward. And before you begin with the verbal tap dance to try to denigrate the clock and magnify your own unsupported claims, the people that run it are watching such things and would definitely put it into their equation IF it were true. So let's see the supporting documentation. Otherwise we are witness to yet another Ish bullshitogram.

Comshaw

 

[mayfly13]

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Supply chain problems. Not enough truck drivers and increased cost of fuel because of 1. However 1 is caused it has a massive financial effect.

The West did not invade Ukraine. They did not invade Russia. There was an agreement with Russia that in exchange for Ukraine giving up their nuclear weapons Ukraine's borders would be guaranteed by Russia, who broke that agreement in 2014.

I'm not referring to the invasion.

but to the 'sanctions' imposed by Biden.
They, and Putin are at fault

 

[oggbashan]

I'm not referring to the invasion.

but to the 'sanctions' imposed by Biden.
They, and Putin are at fault

The sanctions were imposed by the US, the UK and the EU b cause Russia broke its agreement and invaded a country that was NO threat to it..

If and when Russian oil and gas supplies are replaced by other sources no EU country will ever accept Russian supplies again - ever.

 

[Rightguide]

The sanctions were imposed by the US, the UK and the EU b cause Russia broke its agreement and invaded a country that was NO threat to it..

If and when Russian oil and gas supplies are replaced by other sources no EU country will ever accept Russian supplies again - ever.

The US could supply that natural gas if we had a President willing to do it. Trump had the means and the plan to do it. He warned Germany and Europe about the consequences of their dependence of Russian gas.

 

[oggbashan]

The US could supply that natural gas if we had a President willing to do it. Trump had the means and the plan to do it. He warned Germany and Europe about the consequences of their dependence of Russian gas.

No, the US can't. The EU doesn't have the terminals to accept it.

 

[icanhelp1]

I don't know Donald Trump. I have read that he has done tremendously generous and compassionate things for ordinary people that we don't hear about. My sense is he is a good man at heart. I read where he had read about a young boy who needed a lifesaving medical procedure but the airlines refused to transport the child. He ordered his private aircraft to cross the country to pick him up and deliver him to the place he needed to go to receive that much-needed care.

The press has attacked Trump relentlessly and many people have fallen prey to the lies designed to destroy him as a man and his presidency. People and governments all over the free world feel they have a stake in the policies of the United States and take liberties to insert their views into our political discourse about our candidates and national policy based on information filtered through their media, their political leaders, and with a mindset based on their own national priorities. They like our money and our national security umbrella but they expect us to stay out of their political and social affairs.

I'm well aware of Trump's philanthropy and I agree his heart is in the right place and I also believe he puts our country first. My problem is humility. He punches down and I find that very unprofessional. The fourth estate has failed us, they have abandoned us, they have become political activist and party loyalist instead of playing the neutral arbiter and a truth seeking watchdog over our political system. What they did to Trump is inexcusable but I also put much of our divisions squarely on our political system. Our politicians have lost their way, they have basically become oligarchs and party loyalist more concerned with self preservation and re-election ( not all to be fair, but most ) than preserving our republican form of government. They aren't protecting us from big government they're facilitating it. If a collapse of our great country should come to fruition there's plenty of blame to go around. I hope Trump sits it out, we need to heal. We have many like minded candidates that can do the job.

People need to take their country back, politicians think we work for them and its time to fire a whole bunch of them. I blame media for not keeping people honest, crossfire hurricane, the Mueller investigation, Hunter's laptop, a politically active DOJ, cashless bail, marxist DAs on and on!

Trump has exposed to all how corrupt our political system is.

 

[icanhelp1]

No, the US can't. The EU doesn't have the terminals to accept it.

Had we started building those facilities 18 months ago, just saying!

 

[Rightguide]

No, the US can't. The EU doesn't have the terminals to accept it.

Yes we can. We have the largest recoverable supplies in the World. I didn't say it could this minute but there was a plan to increase the number of pipelines and LNG facilities. It will take time but it can be done:

U.S. LNG Can Replace Russian Natural Gas​

BY IER
MARCH 17, 2022
Toby Rice, who runs the U.S. largest natural gas producing company, Pittsburgh-based EQT, indicated that the United States could easily replace Russian natural gas supply in Europe. He estimated the United States has the potential to quadruple its gas output by 2030. What is needed to accomplish that is more natural gas pipelines and LNG export facilities because U.S. LNG terminals are shipping close to all the gas they can and there are not enough pipelines to get the needed gas to export terminals. Unfortunately President Joe Biden’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulators—an independent agency—voted that they must consider climate change in their approval process for natural gas pipelines and LNG facilities. Political opposition to building pipelines and export facilities for hydrocarbons is primarily preventing the U.S. natural gas industry from helping Europe end its reliance on Russian gas. The Biden administration needs to streamline the process for getting pipeline and LNG projects approved, rather than following its current course of finding ways to undermine the approval process.

Status of LNG Facilities

The United States is the world’s largest producer of natural gas and largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, shipping 100 cargoes of LNG a month, mostly to Europe. There are currently eight LNG terminals operating in the United States, with 14 more projects approved for construction, some of which are waiting on the political climate to see whether pipelines to move the gas to terminals will be allowed to be built. LNG facilities are expensive and complex, and few are willing to risk billions of dollars if the government is targeting their product. After a large number of decisions in 2019 to build new terminals, developers have approved just one project in the past two years. U.S. LNG developers have abundant gas and operating skills but have been hamstrung by U.S. regulatory uncertainty in expanding operations. The United States has enough natural gas to produce at its 2020 rate for nearly 100 years, according to the latest government estimates, but tapping the nation’s ample supply is constrained by lack of pipelines and export terminals, and the time it takes to build this infrastructure. Great strides were made between 2017 and 2020, which made today’s LNG shipments to Europe possible.

In January, U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe exceeded Russia’s pipeline deliveries for the first time. Of the five dozen or so U.S. LNG tankers on the water, more than two-thirds headed for Europe. U.S. producers increased the share of exported LNG to Europe from 37 percent of U.S. LNG volumes earlier in 2021 to nearly half in January 2022. Exports of LNG from the United States to EU-27 and the UK increased from 3.4 billion cubic feet per day in November 2021 to 6.5 billion cubic feet per day in January 2022. In February, about three-quarters of the tankers that departed U.S. ports were headed for European destinations with less than a quarter headed to Asia.

Russian exports, which normally account for about 30 percent of Europe’s natural gas use, dropped substantially because of Russian cutbacks and pricing. As a result, European natural gas prices are about four times as high as normal, inviting U.S. exports of LNG to fill the gap. European gas trades at around $26 per million British thermal units. The price of American gas is a little over $4, but the costs of liquefying, transporting and gasifying the LNG need to be added to the U.S. price. In February 24 trading, as Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, gas prices surged to over $37 per million British thermal unit. In early March, LNG spot prices jumped to a record high near $60 per million British thermal units, but have since declined to around $51.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects U.S. LNG exports will reach 11.4 billion cubic feet per day in 2022, accounting for about 22 percent of expected world LNG demand of 53.3 billion cubic feet per day next year, outpacing both Australia and Qatar. Prices have risen so much in Europe that traders of LNG cargoes would rather pay millions of dollars in penalties for non-delivery to other countries for the opportunity to sell the cargoes at a premium to European buyers.

Much more here: https://www.instituteforenergyresea...sues/u-s-lng-can-replace-russian-natural-gas/

 

[oggbashan]

Eventually, yes, the US could supply the EU's needs but not yet. There aren't enough LPG terminals in the EU and not enough LPG tankers.

The US is self-sufficient in oil products. The UK is nearly so, and could be if limited fracking were to be allowed.

For President Trump to attack the EU for accepting Russian gas ignored the truth that the EU is sadly deficient in oil supplies and would have to import from somewhere. Russia was selling their products below the international market rate because it wanted hard currency.

 

[Chobham]

Eventually, yes, the US could supply the EU's needs but not yet. There aren't enough LPG terminals in the EU and not enough LPG tankers.

The US is self-sufficient in oil products. The UK is nearly so, and could be if limited fracking were to be allowed.

For President Trump to attack the EU for accepting Russian gas ignored the truth that the EU is sadly deficient in oil supplies and would have to import from somewhere. Russia was selling their products below the international market rate because it wanted hard currency.

As it turns out Trump wasn't wrong, his fault was not offering a viable alternative. And Germany garners zero sympathy from me. They allowed the "Greens" to shut down their reactors, so now they're reopening the coal mines.

 

[icanhelp1]

Eventually, yes, the US could supply the EU's needs but not yet. There aren't enough LPG terminals in the EU and not enough LPG tankers.

The US is self-sufficient in oil products. The UK is nearly so, and could be if limited fracking were to be allowed.

For President Trump to attack the EU for accepting Russian gas ignored the truth that the EU is sadly deficient in oil supplies and would have to import from somewhere. Russia was selling their products below the international market rate because it wanted hard currency.

Don't blame Trump, he was willing to work with Germany. Germany owns this! Blame Biden for this cluster F**k. Biden Lifted sanctions against Nord stream II AND BASICALLY PEARL HARBORED OUR OWN ENERGY PRODUCTION CAPABILITIES.

 

[icanhelp1]

Yes we can. We have the largest recoverable supplies in the World. I didn't say it could this minute but there was a plan to increase the number of pipelines and LNG facilities. It will take time but it can be done:

U.S. LNG Can Replace Russian Natural Gas​

BY IER
MARCH 17, 2022
Toby Rice, who runs the U.S. largest natural gas producing company, Pittsburgh-based EQT, indicated that the United States could easily replace Russian natural gas supply in Europe. He estimated the United States has the potential to quadruple its gas output by 2030. What is needed to accomplish that is more natural gas pipelines and LNG export facilities because U.S. LNG terminals are shipping close to all the gas they can and there are not enough pipelines to get the needed gas to export terminals. Unfortunately President Joe Biden’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulators—an independent agency—voted that they must consider climate change in their approval process for natural gas pipelines and LNG facilities. Political opposition to building pipelines and export facilities for hydrocarbons is primarily preventing the U.S. natural gas industry from helping Europe end its reliance on Russian gas. The Biden administration needs to streamline the process for getting pipeline and LNG projects approved, rather than following its current course of finding ways to undermine the approval process.

Status of LNG Facilities

The United States is the world’s largest producer of natural gas and largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, shipping 100 cargoes of LNG a month, mostly to Europe. There are currently eight LNG terminals operating in the United States, with 14 more projects approved for construction, some of which are waiting on the political climate to see whether pipelines to move the gas to terminals will be allowed to be built. LNG facilities are expensive and complex, and few are willing to risk billions of dollars if the government is targeting their product. After a large number of decisions in 2019 to build new terminals, developers have approved just one project in the past two years. U.S. LNG developers have abundant gas and operating skills but have been hamstrung by U.S. regulatory uncertainty in expanding operations. The United States has enough natural gas to produce at its 2020 rate for nearly 100 years, according to the latest government estimates, but tapping the nation’s ample supply is constrained by lack of pipelines and export terminals, and the time it takes to build this infrastructure. Great strides were made between 2017 and 2020, which made today’s LNG shipments to Europe possible.

In January, U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe exceeded Russia’s pipeline deliveries for the first time. Of the five dozen or so U.S. LNG tankers on the water, more than two-thirds headed for Europe. U.S. producers increased the share of exported LNG to Europe from 37 percent of U.S. LNG volumes earlier in 2021 to nearly half in January 2022. Exports of LNG from the United States to EU-27 and the UK increased from 3.4 billion cubic feet per day in November 2021 to 6.5 billion cubic feet per day in January 2022. In February, about three-quarters of the tankers that departed U.S. ports were headed for European destinations with less than a quarter headed to Asia.

Russian exports, which normally account for about 30 percent of Europe’s natural gas use, dropped substantially because of Russian cutbacks and pricing. As a result, European natural gas prices are about four times as high as normal, inviting U.S. exports of LNG to fill the gap. European gas trades at around $26 per million British thermal units. The price of American gas is a little over $4, but the costs of liquefying, transporting and gasifying the LNG need to be added to the U.S. price. In February 24 trading, as Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, gas prices surged to over $37 per million British thermal unit. In early March, LNG spot prices jumped to a record high near $60 per million British thermal units, but have since declined to around $51.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects U.S. LNG exports will reach 11.4 billion cubic feet per day in 2022, accounting for about 22 percent of expected world LNG demand of 53.3 billion cubic feet per day next year, outpacing both Australia and Qatar. Prices have risen so much in Europe that traders of LNG cargoes would rather pay millions of dollars in penalties for non-delivery to other countries for the opportunity to sell the cargoes at a premium to European buyers.

Much more here: https://www.instituteforenergyresea...sues/u-s-lng-can-replace-russian-natural-gas/

We could have started building LNG facilities in both Germany and the US 18 months ago.

 

[oggbashan]

We could have started building LNG facilities in both Germany and the US 18 months ago.

The EU SHOULD have started building terminals and seeking other sources in 2014.

 

[icanhelp1]

The EU SHOULD have started building terminals and seeking other sources in 2014.

I agree, Russia showed its spots when it invaded Crimea and yet Germany stuck its head in the sand.

 

[oggbashan]

The UK and France had planned to build a power link between the two countries to exchange power at different peak times. It would have been a win/win project until:

President Macron indicated that in the case of a dispute between France and the UK, he might shut down the cable.

The UK pulled the plug on the project...

 

[Rightguide]

Eventually, yes, the US could supply the EU's needs but not yet. There aren't enough LPG terminals in the EU and not enough LPG tankers.

The US is self-sufficient in oil products. The UK is nearly so, and could be if limited fracking were to be allowed.

For President Trump to attack the EU for accepting Russian gas ignored the truth that the EU is sadly deficient in oil supplies and would have to import from somewhere. Russia was selling their products below the international market rate because it wanted hard currency.

Trump attacked the Eu in the context of NATO and the conflict that reliance on Russian gas represented to their security interests if hostilities broke out like they are as we speak. In this matter, Trump has been fully vindicated by the present reality the EU finds itself facing.

 

[mayfly13]

Trump attacked the Eu in the context of NATO and the conflict that reliance on Russian gas represented to their security interests if hostilities broke out like they are as we speak. In this matter, Trump has been fully vindicated by the present reality the EU finds itself facing.

Could you please wipe that Trump cum off your chin, before speaking to us?

 

[mayfly13]

The sanctions were imposed by the US, the UK and the EU b cause Russia broke its agreement and invaded a country that was NO threat to it..

If and when Russian oil and gas supplies are replaced by other sources no EU country will ever accept Russian supplies again - ever.

could you please stop that condescending British bull?

 

[Rightguide]

Could you please wipe that Trump cum off your chin, before speaking to us?

Could you please go fuck your mother before the mailman arrives and leaves you a wet hole? Just looking out for your dumb ass.

 

[icanhelp1]

Could you please wipe that Trump cum off your chin, before speaking to us?

Nothing worse than being arrogant and stupid.

 

[Rightguide]

Nothing worse than being arrogant and stupid.

I guess he and his brother finally finished that overwatch mission:

https://i.imgur.com/oWOzFxv.jpg

 

[lovecraft68]

Weird how the population keeps going up and not down.

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

Especially seeing how many people died of covid, oh, wait, that stat was greatly exaggerated which is why the population is still going up.

But don't worry, Gates attempt at depopulation may have failed via pandemic but he's going to do far better starving people to death because congress is to busy bickering to be bothered by the fact one person now owns half the farmland in this country....hmmm...when did the shortages start?

So have faith, BG will have his Thanos snap eventually

 

[ryan8558]

it's been estimated the Earth's population was at one time 5,000 people. So, excluding a nuclear winter or giant asteroid collision, I think it's going to be a long time before we get back to that.

 

[ll74]

Especially seeing how many people died of covid, oh, wait, that stat was greatly exaggerated which is why the population is still going up.

But don't worry, Gates attempt at depopulation may have failed via pandemic but he's going to do far better starving people to death because congress is to busy bickering to be bothered by the fact one person now owns half the farmland in this country....hmmm...when did the shortages start?

So have faith, BG will have his Thanos snap eventually

Your grievances (and bullshit) aren't in reply to my comment. But thanks for sharing with me.

I hope your microchip works out well.