This is going to be a bitterly cold winter for a whole lot of people. In particular, things are likely to get really uncomfortable in Europe. Soaring energy prices and concern about potential shortages are causing anxiety all over the continent, and widespread protests have already started to take place.
The cost of living has become extremely painful for those on the bottom of the economic food chain, and people want their governments to do something. Of course this is what always happens when nations embrace socialism. There is an expectation that those in charge will solve any and every problem, but this time around the limitations of the socialists running Europe will become very clear.
Thanks to the war in Ukraine and a number of other factors, the price of natural gas in Europe is now approximately six times higher than it was last year…
European natural gas prices are taking a breather amid further signs that soaring energy costs are crippling economic output, heaping pressure on politicians to resolve the crisis with winter just a few months away.
Benchmark futures retreated after settling at a record high on Monday. Prices are still about six times higher than they were at this time last year, with the panic spreading across nations ahead of peak winter demand.
Needless to say, many in Europe are being completely stunned by the size of their energy bills, and a massive backlash has been brewing.
In fact, we are already starting to see very large protests in a number of different countries…
British grassroots group “Don’t Pay UK” is calling for people to boycott energy bills from Oct. 1, while the trade union-backed “Enough is Enough” campaign kicked off a series of rallies and actions in mid-August calling for pay rises, rent caps, cheaper energy and food, and taxes on the rich.
A worsening cost-of-living crisis across Europe has already seen workers in France, Spain and Belgium go out on strike in the public transport, health and aviation sectors, pushing for higher wages to help them cope with rocketing inflation.
But this is just the beginning.
As supplies get even tighter this winter, energy costs are only going to go higher.
And a lot of officials in Europe are extremely concerned about the potential for shortages and blackouts.
Even now, this energy crisis is forcing some big companies to significantly curtail activity…
The list of industries that are curbing output is growing. Poland’s biggest chemicals company, Grupa Azoty SA, has stopped making some of its key products and trimmed production of ammonia because of record gas prices, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
Unless the war in Ukraine comes to a speedy conclusion, this crisis is not going away any time soon.
So the people of Europe are going to be asked to make additional sacrifices in the months ahead. This week, French President Emmanuel Macron actually used the phrase “end of abundance” to describe what citizens of his country would soon be facing…
Emmanuel Macron has warned the French they are facing sacrifices and what he called the “end of abundance”, at his government’s first cabinet meeting after the summer holidays.
The president, speaking before ministers at the Élysée, said the country was at a “tipping point” and faced a difficult winter and a new era of instability caused by climate change and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Based on the anger that we are already witnessing, I don’t think that the people of Europe are going to handle the “end of abundance” too well.
Meanwhile, energy prices in the U.S. continue to skyrocket as well. At this point, the price of natural gas in the U.S. has risen more than 150 percent in 2022…
U.S. natural gas prices briefly hurdled $10 per million British thermal units (BTUs) on Tuesday, the highest since 2008. They are up more than 150% this year.
Approximately half the population uses natural gas to heat their homes.
**By Michael Snyder
**Source
We can see now how this is being done, how the same force controls the different nations involved in the conflict, playing them against each other and giving the excuse to crash the markets, create inflation and interest and debt. Order from chaos. It is not organic, it is not happening by accident, it is deliberate and premeditated. The chaos is created and the creator of the chaos benefits. It cannot create anything other than chaos.
This force desires the control and domination of the world. The creation of an elite (who benefit from joining to this chaos, lending their mouths and bodies to it in exchange for joining the elite) and the subjugation of the non-elite.
At its root are the evil acts that sustain this evil force which I will not detail that are also sustained and enforced by the hierarchy of evil minions that force it upon the world via its tools of chaos creation, fear, intimidation and lies. Like a mafia that controls a city.
Fortunately I found the creator and the creator helps me to live with this sad situation until the day it comes to its conclusion. The creator only creates and sets things in motion and this motion creates cycles or seasons which vary on scales from the very small to the very large. The creator does not destroy, rather, the cycles or the seasons or the ages simply change from one to the next.
There was no need to spread rot on Russia. Here you go! Maybe the Ukronazis will dump your energy?