 When you were in England, did they talk about, did you talk to anybody about there's a shortage of truck drivers and the gas price, the natural gas prices are supposed to go up a lot? Yeah, so this is certainly in England, but Europe-wide England is in a funny position where they have a shortage of power. I don't know how many people know this, but I discovered in my trip to Great Britain that the British, this is almost, you know, it's hard for me even to say it's so unthinkable from a historical perspective. The English actually import power from France in underground cables under the channel because the French are relatively rational when it comes to energy and I think 80% of all their electricity comes from nuclear power. They have excess and they sell it to the Brits. So Britain is actually dependent on the French for power. There is a natural gas shortage. There are problems with getting LNG. Europe generally is in a position where they hugely and increasingly reliant on Russia for natural gas. Natural gas in spite of the fact that you could frack in England, England has vast natural gas reserves that you would need to frack in order to get to. There is massive resistance within England for any fracking. They are more and more relying on what Alex Epstein calls unreliable energy sources like wind. They have these huge wind farms in the North Sea, but as we know, sometimes the wind doesn't blow. And as we also know, how do you store all that energy? Even when the wind blows, you have to use it immediately because you can't store it. Battery technology is way too expensive. So yes, Europe generally is going to be experiencing massive increases in energy prices and real problems are shortages, particularly in the winter. They're expecting significant shortages of natural gas and an increased reliance on the Russians for energy and for national gas, which is not a good idea. Again, lots of natural gas in Europe to be fracked, lots of resistance for fracking, which is playing into kind of the geopolitical nonsense. Germany has now expanded its solar panel energy collection. When the sun shines in Germany, they get a little bit of electricity from the solar panels. If you've been to Germany, you know it doesn't shine very often. Generally, Europe is insane when it comes to these. You know, the one country that is, other than France, but even better than France is Finland. Finland is massively invested in nuclear power. Anybody want to guess why Finland? Why is Finland the most responsible and the most invested in nuclear power of all the European countries? In the winter, I think it's because of the winter. It's cold in Sweden as well, but why Finland? What is it about Finnish history that they want to make sure that they are energy independent? They hate Russia. They fought wars with Russia. They've exchanged a territory with Russia. They do not want. They do not want to depend on Russia. So they are expanding their nuclear capabilities. They're expanding their ability to generate power from nuclear. Norway, which has vast oil fields and natural gas fields in the North Sea, is trying to go carbon neutral. But if they don't invest the nuclear, how they're going to do that? They don't have exactly a lot of sunshine in Norway, except in the summer, maybe a little bit. Yeah, I guess the wind blows periodically, but that's not going to solve the problem. So nuclear is a solution which everybody is avoiding. Germany shutting down their nuclear power plants. Germany prices are already double what they were before Germany shut down their nuclear power plants prices for electricity. And again, they're going to be shortages. There's likely to be shortages in the winter. We're likely to see people potentially dying of cold. They'll probably blame global warming for that. But the cause of it is going to be the lack of investment in reliable energy technologies. And the Brits, don't forget the British government. The British government is dominated, is basically a conservative government. They have over 50% of parliament. They can pass any laws they want. They can do anything they want. What do they want? They want to go solar and wind. In England, have you ever seen the sun in London? Actually, the last four days I was in London, it was the best weather I've ever had in London. The sun was shining three and a half of the four days, but that's very unusual. Anyway, it's insane. Europe is completely nutty when it comes to climate change. It's the number one issue. Nobody disagrees with it. That is, everybody's falling in line. The conservatives completely falling in line around climate change, around unreliable energy sources. It's another reason to believe that Europe is ultimately in long-term decline. 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