Europe's energy crisis

 Fox News:

In Italy last Saturday, people burned their electricity and gas bills; on the same day in the Czech Republic capital of Prague, 70,000 people protested the government’s approach to skyrocketing consumer prices; and, on Tuesday in Britain, incoming Prime Minister Liz Truss vowed to immediately tackle the energy crisis and address the soaring cost of living.

For decades, Europe has relied overwhelmingly on Russia for fossil fuels to run its factories, generate its electricity and heat its homes. Now, in countries across the continent, citizens and governments alike are feeling the bitter impact of Moscow’s six-month-old war in Ukraine, which has already caused a shortfall in the gas supply, pushing up prices of everyday goods and leaving people struggling to keep their homes warm and families fed.

A combination of Western-imposed sanctions on Russia due to its ongoing aggressions in Ukraine and Russia’s angry pushback, combined with two years of pandemic shutdowns, extreme weather conditions and a range of other factors, are now sparking fears of even worse shortages of gas, electricity and basic food staples as Europe heads into the cold winter months.

"There’s a very real sense of crisis because the European energy supply, which has largely been provided by Russia, is now being restricted," Alan Mendoza, Executive Director of the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital.

"There is a general fear in Europe that we might run dry of gas over the course of the winter that is leading to stockpiling, firstly to make sure that countries have as much gas in their storages as possible, and secondly, many countries are looking at how they can restrict the use of electricity in order to make it last through the winter," he said.

In addition, Europe is also eyeing alternative sources of energy from Norway to North Africa to the Mediterranean basin to ensure it will fill the shortage this year and end its reliance on Russia once and for all.

"What we’re seeing now is the result of what happens when you rely on a rogue state for energy," said David Patrikarakos, contributing editor at Unherd and author of "War in 140 Characters."

"Just like COVID taught us that we cannot rely on a rogue state, China, for our supply chains, so this is telling us that we cannot rely on a rogue state like Russia for our energy needs," he said. "This was inevitable because a state like Russia is always going to behave like this in the end and therefore, any vulnerabilities we have any reliance on them will be exploited and used for blackmail purposes, which is what is happening now."
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This is a result not only of reliance on Russia but the unfortunate election of Biden in the US who reversed Trump's successful energy policies which would have eased Europe's transition from Russian dependency.  Biden's idiotic energy policies have been a disaster for the US and Europe.  They are one of the many reasons Biden should be impeached.