Replace Russian gas with Russian coal: politicians baffled

Replace Russian natural gas with Russian coal and American coal using this 1 weird trick.

Politicians baffled.

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“Russia remained the main supplier of hard coal to Germany in 2022, despite the restrictions of the European Union, Bild newspaper reports, referring to data from the German Coal Importers Association.

The material shows that in 2022 Germany imported 13 million tons of coal from the Russian Federation, 37% more than in 2021.

According to the data of the German Coal Importers Association, Germany purchased 44.4 million tons of coal last year, an 8% increase compared to the previous year.

● Russia was the largest supplier.

● It is followed by the United States,
where Germany imports 9.4 million tons,
● 32% more than in 2021.

Australia closes the top three (6.3 million tons).

… Earlier, it was learned that it was the intention of the German Council of Ministers to restrict import of liquefied natural gas from Russia.”

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/ edit: for those not aware, the EU
banned Russian coal last year.

Reuters article from August 2022:
reuters.com ↗

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Tom's notes 8

  1. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Andrew Nellestyn PhD PEng

    EU sanctioned Russian coal back in August.

    Reuters article from August 2022:

    https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/eu-ban-russian-coal-imports-kick-thursday-2022-08-10/

  2. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Stuart Turley

    it is idiotic to sanction Russian nuclear raw materials.

    Fun fact, most Western countries depend on Russia for many components and materials and minerals which are required to run their own domestic nuclear power plants. This includes the U.S. and EU.

    You don't need to believe me - I encourage you and others to look at the ginormous list of Western sanctions against Russian raw materials, and figure out for oneself how this will continue to boomerang badly on the sanctioning countries.

    This is becoming ludicrous.

    EU has admitted that they are running out of Russian stuff to sanction, yet the Russian economy is *expanding*.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/media-bewildered-russian-economy-projected-grow-2023-despite-nato-sanctions

  3. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Mike Brown

    it's always fun to watch the light bulb turn on when the bigger picture gets distilled and made obvious.

  4. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Mike Brown

    today I had a very fun podcast with Stuart Turley. It should be released early next week.
    My "light bulb" comment might make more sense if you watch the podcast.
    Pretty sure Stuart said I connected 19 different concepts in the space of a couple minutes.
    Which sounds about right. I can only speak so fast.

  5. Tom Kirkman

    Daryl Montgomery I would follow you, but we are already connected.
    I adore alert, intelligent thinking.

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