Liquefied petroleum gas from the United States - and what about climate change?

[matrixmann]

Any party going through with either their plans or already having banned imports of Russian oil and gas and replacing it with liquefied petroleum gas from the US - offically call their agenda to "fight climate change" broke and dishonest (if it ever even officially existed at all).
Because transporting LPG with tankers over half of the globe, burning fuel to deliver fuel, there's nothing more harmful to the world climate than this in this aspect of the economy and regarding general supply with common contemporary energy carriers.
Not even talking about needing to make the energy-intensive efforts to first liquefy the gas to transport it and then turn it into gas again, sacrificing additional amounts of energy, when it's reached its destination. And the terminals that have to be specifically created and built in order to execute both jobs.

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Agreed

[m_d_h]

Not that the world has ever shown true concern for tackling climate change, but replacing Russian methane with methane shipped from elsewhere in the world is definitely not helping.

And if your concern was a matter of foreign policy, being dependent on Russia for your energy, now you're dependent on somebody else instead. Not sure that is helping either.

The transporting of goods around the world is more about urbanization, industrialization, and power maximization -- we've cut ourselves off from the natural rhythms of mammalian survival, hunting and gathering from what is available to us nearby. Instead each person treats the entire world as fair game for his or her needs and desires.

Re: Agreed

[matrixmann]

I've thought a couple of times already, seeing the supply chains for fossil fuels changing to such unlogical and even more harmful to the environment structures, just because of political reasons - Greta Thuberg actually must be hopping mad. If she really meant her commitment to the climate issue honestly.

This is all so fucking illogical and like "we knew, you didn't want to do anything about climate change anyway - but now you even want to push it hard voluntarily!"...
As they say here "reality and satire are more and more harder to distinguish from each other".

[bbzu.livejournal.com]

It's just a business .... As well as deceiving people - a business! And politics has long become a business, old Biden does not decide anything, it's just a puppet in the wrong hands.

[matrixmann]

If for the US, this outcome isn't really surprising as they've never had some true and serious ambitions to do something about their share that fuels the climate problems. Plus, the US fracking industry pesters the EU for years, and especially my county because of the Nord Stream II pipeline, to buy their LPG without any interference from the side of minding the environment.

But my government and its press, they've been getting on your nerves with shiny proclamations what they want to do in order to fight climate change - and what they outlaw for ordinary people to do under that umbrella - for quite some time now. Jumping on that ideological train the the Fridays For Future kids have started.
The Green party is even part of the current government, and they agree to sell that crap with the US LPG! (Okay, it's not like they've never betrayed anything of their outspoken ideals before... Joschka Fischer did that too in his position as a minister for foreign affairs, becoming an accomplice to the war on Yugoslavia.)

But still one can make a public note about that.
That all of the chatter of the German government, and that over everyone else who spoke the same before, of "wanting to do something against climate change" is void as soon as the international political circumstances change, obviously.

[bbzu.livejournal.com]

coal - this is how you will heat next winter ....

[matrixmann]

Coal is one of the first things they want to get rid of here, straight after nuclear power...
The collieries in the Ruhr area are all closed already. And brown coal is a dogma of the West German greens that unconditionally needs to be abandoned, in their viewpoint.

Other than that, coal is a fail in technical terms: 30 years ago, most flats were still heated with stoves. But during the 90s, after the turnaround, they tore that out of most flats...

So, if things go on as they happpen today, it more looks like people will go the backyards, somebody from the neighborhood brings an old rusty (oil) drum with him from the basement, and then all will heat themselves through the fire that will be ignited in it. Like the homeless in the Bronx...