The same IEA has warned repeatedly of the precarious position Europe has put themselves in with regard to fuel dependence. The Russian war on Ukraine and subsequent sanctions should have made that tangible but Europe just switched over to Gulf suppliers, exacerbating the present problem. In fact instead of reacting to increase domestic refining and reserves just last year Europe shut down 4 refineries (~400000 barrels per day) of capacity. It lets politicians pretend they are being green while actually just paying someone else to do the dirty work.

The US does all of its own refining and is able to send both crude and jet fuel to Europe to offset at least some of the deficit. The markets are rerouting and many of the global tankers (especially from Asia) are headed to the US to resupply, with the US set to almost double its exports. Unfortunately extra-crude doesn't help Europe's jet fuel problem much since they can't refine it.

The headline appears to be nonsense. It's not really about encouraging people to use more electricity but to time-shift their usage of appliances which draw a lot of power.

Exactly.

Whence comes the assumption that there is only one competitor exploiting a monopoly?

Process Explorer. Not quite as integrated as you'd like, but it lets you search for any handle, including part of a filename, to see which process(es) are holding it.

Given that one of the first bombing targets in Iran which the US hit was a girls' school, and that got a lot of press, your comment goes beyond ignorant into wilfully ignorant and offensive.

It's not about hand-washing so much as not being exposed to the local microbiome. When I travelled in Latin America the advice was to soak vegetables in diluted iodine for at least 20 minutes before using them to make salad.

1. Propagandize on teh intarwebs to get the useful idiots baying in the wrong direction. Including demonizing the wrong 1%.
2. Collect kompromat to control politicians. If none is available, have a program to create some. (RELEASE THE EPSTIEN FILES.)
3. Assymetric warfare, use swarms of cheap drones s while the enemy uses 1 million dollar missiles to try to stop them.
4. sabotage, particularly cyber and ecoonomic .
5. Don't be a blundering loudmouth. Diplomacy has a much greater ROI. Needing to blow things up is a failure.
0. Make sure you've got people on the inside working in your interests instead of those of their own nation.

Looks like the ADE 651 got a quantum upgrade.


Kind of like how in WWII the allies promoted the idea that carrots help with your night vision to obfuscate the fact that they had RADAR to explain away how their night fighters kept shooting down German planes. Even Bugs Bunny played his patriotic part for the war effort.

Jim Bell has entered the chat.

That's damn well not how they're selling it!

Putin is 73. Khamenei is 56, although apparently injured by the attack that killed his father.

Finally some sanity, we can invest our retirement nest-egg 100% in Trumpcoin! WINNING!

Hmm, they're using a task specialized robot to do real world things, not some delusional AI investor fleecing machine. I guess right tool for the job and all that.