Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2026/03/25/europe-3-energy-shocks-in-4-years-what-to-do-next/

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[โ€“] 143 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (24 children)

Nah, we'll just buy gas from US and postpone electrification of transport couple decades. What could go wrong?

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    [โ€“] 75 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Stop buying gas from the enemy after 4 years of war? Preposterous!

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  • [โ€“] 48 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The EU has reduced Russian gas imports from 45% of the total gas imports of the union before the invasion of Ukraine to 13% at the end of 2025 and will be at 0% by 2027.

    Coal and oil are already at 0%.

    It's not like you can just switch off 150bn cubic meters of gas overnight

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  • [โ€“] 67 points 5 months ago (36 children)

    Or, ya know, build on self-sustainable sources.

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  • [โ€“] 37 points 5 months ago (26 children)

    But nuclear is so bad!!1! Better burn coal and oil and "clean" gas!!

    Renewables FTW, with a nuclear backdrop til we can phase out that too is the way forward IMO.

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  • [โ€“] 28 points 5 months ago (20 children)

    You know nuclear isn't self-sustainable? Uranium is mined in only a few places.

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    [โ€“] 56 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The enemies of europe (and any other country) are billionares and politicians.

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    [+] 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (38 children)
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    [โ€“] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Exactly, don't buy from the usa, our once allie has shown open hostility.

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  • [โ€“] 25 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Trump was driving trade diversification around the world with the idiotic tariffs, and now, with the illegal war against Iran, he's creating a resurgence of interest in renewables and EVs. Exact opposite of what he says he wants but maybe not so bad in the long run.

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    [โ€“] 24 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I feel like it should have been clear to everyone since at least 9/11 and the aftermath but no one in leadership has made the obvious case that renewables are great for national security and not just the environment. Really shameful loss for humanity.

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  • [โ€“] 21 points 5 months ago

    The technology is there. We need solar, wind, batteries, hydro-storage and nuclear, which is hold back by fear and costs driven by bureaucracy. What we lack is political capital and supranational coordination. We need to scale up production and learn from the Chinese. The demand for batteries is there.

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 5 months ago (17 children)

    In Denmark, we have been investing heavily in solar panels and windmills the last few years, which is awesome! Electric car purchases have also exploded.

    Now we just need to do away with out pig production and we will have more fields to place solar panels on and there will still be plenty of space to turn former pig feed fields into wildlife reserves so our nature can recover from the damage these pig farmers have done to our country. It'll take time, but I'm optimistic about our green policies in the future. We are heading in the right direction.

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    [โ€“] 18 points 5 months ago (5 children)
    1. More nuclear power plants
    2. more renevables
    3. more public transport and evs
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  • [โ€“] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Do you kbow where Europe get it's uranium to power these nuclear power plants from? No? Let me tell you: We import it from countries like Kazakhstan, Niger a bit from Canada. France, one of the biggest nuclear powered countries imports it's uranium from Russia. This is exactly the same as with oil and gas. So tell me: How do nuclear power plants help us, if we have to import the fuel?

    Do you know what are the resources we have in Europe: Wind, water and sun. To be fair, we have cole too, but this is one of the dirtiest ways to produce energie.

    The only way out are renewable energies.

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    [โ€“] 14 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    So there's no need for subsidies money because the epic capitalism Invisible hand private market "just needs permission to go green"? This might be one of the dumbest "conclusions" to an article I've read in a while. I hope this entire thing was written by AI.

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    [โ€“] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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