How Europe’s Energy Crisis Could Force The EU To Adopt More Sensible Policies

How Europe’s Energy Crisis Could Force The EU To Adopt More Sensible Policies

The 'mozah', world's largest LNG (= liquefied natural gas) tanker - total capacity 266, 000 m3, ... [+] shipping qatargas to Europe, docked at South Hook storage & regasification plant (Europe's largest LNG terminal), tugboat sailing past, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK, Europe. (Photo by Universal Images Group via Getty Images) As 2021 came to a close, Bloomberg reported that dozens of U. S. tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) were currently headed to various ports in Europe. As of Jan. 1, Bloomberg reporter Sergio Chapa had identified 49 U. S. LNG cargoes bound for Europe to help the continent avoid a full-fledged energy crisis as winter sets in. It is the largest flotilla of U. S. vessels with the goal of saving Europe from its own folly since the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944. Europe's energy crisis deepened during December, as various EU member countries, along with Great Britain, resorted to burning more coal and fuel oil due to under-performance by wind power. It is a crisis created almost entirely by efforts by these governments to force a premature energy transition using wind and other renewable energy sources that are not ready to bear the load of retiring