Sounds like saber rattling for warmongers or Russian sympathizers that want Europe to freeze this winter.
I understand sharing the pain with them this year. What about next winter? 5 years from now?
It might not always be Europeans either. Right now, Americans are exposed to price spikes originating from anywhere in the world.
Sounds like opening pipelines, dropping regulations and drill baby drill to me. Hire new people to make those decisions that aren’t invested in killing our energy production.
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Dropping regulations will give oil and gas a competitive advantage against alternatives. Doesn’t that leave us more exposed the next time this happens?
If more of your electricty came from natural gas or coal this month, would your electric bill be higher or lower than it is now?
Mine would be higher.
Prices are going up for Texans primarily because gas prices have gone up. And that’s usually what dictates the market for our electricity in this state. That’s the largest amount of cost,” said Michele Richmond, the executive director of Texas Competitive Power Advocates.”
Never thought the green dream would come down to the choice of killing Europeans or shunning Biden’s failed policies, huh?
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Europeans recognize that they’re in this situation because they didn’t hustle enough on alternative energy.
Habeck accused the southern state and manufacturing hub, which depends on gas-fired power plants and has few coal-fired plants, of possibly contributing to problems by failing build up wind power production and improve the network.
Bavaria, the state he’s talking about, is a good example of this failure. They bet on fossil fuels and resisted alternatives.
[Bavarian Premier Markus Söder] also thinks more wind energy is a great idea — up north, not among Bavaria’s rolling hills — and recently suggested Germany look into fracking to secure more gas, specifically in Lower Saxony, a safe distance from Munich.
Germany’s north isn’t amused.
“Have you lost it?” responded Lower Saxony’s Premier Stefan Weil. “Dear Markus Söder, how about wind power in Bavaria?”
Olaf Lies, Weil’s environment minister, doubled down in a lengthy statement. Söder, “king of the NIMBYs,” was “harvesting the fruits of his own energy policy failure … and they taste bitter,” he said.
Freeport explosion shows that we’re already plenty supplied with energy. It just goes to the wrong customers. What’s Biden failing to do?
America Last™ - voted for, and approved.
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If this is a crisis, then perhaps some of that free money going to pay off select peoples debts could better be used to offset peoples gas prices this winter. Or perhaps if Europe covered more of those payments we make to Ukraine that could free up some money.
Heating homes sounds more like a crisis than having to pay off school debts, to me. Perhaps someone has their priorities mixed up.
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You know who mostly uses gas for heating? Non-Kid Sniffer voters. 
Are Europeans “wrong”? Maybe shipping it to the New York, Mass. and New Jersey could reduce gas prices for people in the states that produce the gas. Northeasterners don’t seem to favor those red states and the opinions of the deplorable. Perhaps those people in the NE are the wrong people too.
And we could get rid of some of those pipelines they don’t like.
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Business First
Businesses go where the profits are.
Energy is a global market.
Do you want government controls on where our oil and gas goes?
Not sure that’s going to help with the price we are paying for it.
And deregulating and “Drill Baby Drill” is not a strategy.
That is filled with gross assumptions…most of which are untrue.
How are those biceps coming along?
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Such as?
“Our” oil and gas.
Who is “our”?
How much natural gas comes from NY, Mass, NJ?
They just use it…and now some of them want to complain about gas going to Europe?
As far as Texas, I get more political conflict coming out of the North East than Europe. Not sure which I had rather have “our” natural gas.
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Wonder what the cost of natural gas in Texas would be if we didn’t ship any of it outside of Texas? Hmmmm….?
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Oil and gas harm our environment and cause Global warming, Pollution, Climate change. Everyone switch to electric cars or walk. No petroleum products, go naked
First son, Hunter, can carry Daddy’s legacy. Hunter for President.
Let’s Go Brandon.
This is a good point.
It may be suggested in jest right now, but just for the sake of national security, federal leases and a whole pile of regulations around mineral and surface rights should probably be re-worded to prevent shenanigans like this in the future.
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From the way this thread has gone, wouldn’t northeastern blue states and California be justified in subsidizing or outright running an oil or gas company just to ensure they will have a stable supply in the future?
Following that line of thought to the end, this hypothetical company gets bigger until it is a heavily subsidized nation-sized corporation that controls exports too.
If energy security of Americans is the only consideration, then oil, gas, and coal should be publicly owned before they come out of the ground.
