cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/72557390
The agreement to release oil stocks comes amid growing concerns in Brussels about entering winter with low strategic reserves, and becoming more susceptible to what several EU officials described as US “blackmail”.
I don’t know, maybe they’ll slow walk it, but the pressure on governments is really high here too, because of the insane price of fuel. They’re enacting widespread subsidies on fuel, which is costing the taxpayer a shitload of money. And about 50-70% the oil companies take for themselves.
Anyway, did I mention that currently BEVs are pretty much the only cars being sold right now? We just got ours yesterday. It’s very nice. Don’t think we’ll ever go back.
Now, it’s just the natural gas heating (house owner already has plans for heat pump) and high-as-fuck prices of everything that we need to deal with.
I vote that trump compensates us for the money he is costing us Europeans being so shit at his job!