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I'm making a new thread. Let me know if there is another with same topic.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/07/busi ... index.html
A global energy crunch caused by weather and a resurgence in demand is getting worse, stirring alarm ahead of the winter, when more energy is needed to light and heat homes. Governments around the world are trying to limit the impact on consumers, but acknowledge they may not be able to prevent bills spiking.
But severe weather in the coming months would create huge strain — particularly in countries that rely heavily on natural gas for energy production, like Italy and the United Kingdom.
We mostly rely on firewood for heating our house, and it's paid for, so no problems there. We will see an increase in the electricity bill, gasoline prices will go up and probably inflation will be higher overall.
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We never should have stopped building nuclear power plants. South Korea shows it can still be done safely and affordably.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 1516300106
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A curse on carbon-based fuels. A curse on nuclear power. Renewables are the way to go. Even oil and gas workers are starting to agree.

Majority of World's Oil and Gas Workers Want to Seek Employment in Renewable Energy Industry
by Kenny Stancil
November 30, 2021

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/ ... y-industry

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(Common Dreams) More than half of workers in the global oil and gas sector say they are interested in pursuing employment in the renewable energy industry—a promising development that comes as experts say the pace of the worldwide transition to clean power must speed up to stave off the worst consequences of the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis.

That's according to a report published Tuesday by the recruitment firm Brunel and Oilandgasjobsearch.com, which includes a survey showing that 56% of fossil fuel workers want to pursue employment in the renewable energy sector, up from 39% last year.

Despite receiving trillions of dollars in subsidies each year, as well as additional bailout money during the Covid-19 pandemic, oil and gas companies responded to the coronavirus-driven decline in demand and prices by firing tens of thousands of workers, rather than furloughing them while production decreased.

Now that demand and prices are on the upswing, many of those same companies are reportedly finding it difficult to rehire the employees they need to increase supply.

According to the survey, 82% of recruiters said that for every 10 job openings, one has remained unfilled for more than three months. Due to a shortage of qualified candidates, 10% of fossil fuel industry employers have had to pay retirees to take open positions.
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There is also hydrogen. maybe not something that can solve shortages in 2021, but something that can become a larger part of the mix in the relatively near future:

Renewable Fuel for the Supersonic Air Force One of the Future
by Tina Casey
November 30, 2021

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/11/29/re ... he-future/

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(CleanTechnica) The US Air Force has been nosing around the area of fossil-free jet fuel for years, and the latest candidate takes the concept into the rarified territory of electrolysis. If all goes according to plan, the jet fighter of the future will grab renewable fuel on-the-go from modular systems that tease hydrogen and carbon from water and air.

Beyond Plain Old Renewable Fuel

The electrolysis approach is a sharp departure from previous efforts to shake the US military free of fossil fuels for air and marine craft. Just a few years ago, everyone was all excited about producing jet fuel from renewable resources like algae oil, used cooking oil, and other bio-based resources, including a sort of fermented biofuel cocktail. At one point it seemed like the whole Department of Defense was pursuing bio-based, fossil-free fuel alternatives for aircraft and watercraft, too

Hydrogen is a zero emission fuel but it is not a renewable fuel — yet. The global supply of hydrogen comes primarily from natural gas. However, it appears that the hydrogen supply chain is set to undergo a sea change.

Hydrogen is beginning to claim new status as a renewable fuel, thanks largely to the steep and still-falling cost of wind and solar power. That has made it commercially feasible to extract hydrogen from water through electrolysis, which involves applying an electrical current. Electrolysis systems tend to be scalable, which means you could produce hydrogen practically anywhere a supply of water and electricity from renewable resources are available. Local supplies of biogas, wastewater, and other bio-based resources could also be used as hydrogen feedstock.
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U.S. gas prices hit a high: $4.17 a gallon
Gas prices, which have been steadily rising for weeks as the conflict in Ukraine has escalated, hit a new high in the United States on Tuesday.

The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline reached $4.173 on Tuesday, according to AAA, surpassing the previous high in July 2008, when the national average was $4.114. The prices are not adjusted for inflation.

Tuesday’s average represented an increase of about 72 cents from a month ago, including about 55 cents in the past week.

President Biden on Tuesday announced a ban on importing Russian energy into the United States. Russia is a major producer of oil and natural gas, and Western countries had been avoiding Russia’s energy sector when imposing sanctions, conscious of the potential economic pain it could bring at home. But Mr. Biden had come under increasing pressure from Congress to cut off Russian oil.

U.S. consumers have been feeling the squeeze, even though the United States imports relatively little oil directly from Russia. In California, prices for some types of gas hovered around $6 in previous days; on Tuesday the state average was well over $5. Mr. Biden has tried to brace Americans for the sticker shock. In a February press briefing before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he said: “I will not pretend this will be painless.”
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Possible Russia Oil Embargo Drives U.S. Outreach to Venezuela
March 7, 2022

https://www.latinorebels.com/2022/03/07/russiaembargo/

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MIAMI (AP via Latino Rebels) — Senior U.S. officials secretly traveled to Venezuela over the weekend in a bid to unfreeze hostile relations with Vladimir Putin’s top ally in Latin America, a top oil exporter whose re-entry into U.S. energy markets could mitigate the fallout at the pump from a possible oil embargo on Russia.

The outcome of the talks with President Nicolas Maduro’s government wasn’t immediately clear.

The surprise visit came together after months of quiet backchanneling by intermediaries —American lobbyists, Norwegian diplomats, and international oil executives— who have been pushing for Biden to revisit the failed “maximum pressure” campaign to unseat Maduro he inherited from the Trump administration.

But the impetus for a risky outreach to Maduro —who has been sanctioned and is indicted in New York on drug trafficking charges— took on added urgency following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ensuing U.S. sanctions, which promises to reshuffle global alliances and add to rising gas prices driving inflation already at a four-decade high. Powerful Democrats and Republicans alike on Capitol Hill last week began voicing support for a U.S. ban on Russian oil and natural gas imports as the next step to punish Putin over the invasion.

The U.S. delegation was led by Juan Gonzalez, the National Security Council’s senior director for the Western Hemisphere, according to two individuals briefed on the visit on the condition of anonymity to discuss U.S. policy. He was accompanied by Ambassador James Story, the top U.S. diplomat in Caracas when the Trump administration broke off relations with Maduro in 2019 and recognized opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the country’s legitimate president.
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How High Could Gas Prices Go? Here's What Experts Fear Could Happen
Across the country, including the Chicago area, gas prices are soaring, and quickly, but how high could they go?

The price of regular gas broke $4 a gallon on Sunday for the first time in nearly 14 years and is now up nearly 50% from a year ago. Monday's national average of $4.104 per gallon broke a record for the all-time high, though that is not adjusted for inflation, according to GasBuddy.

The previous record was set in 2008, when prices averaged $4.103 per gallon. When adjusted for inflation, however, the record price would be equal to about $5.24.

Still, even that's a number some experts fear could be broken.
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