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       The race towards maximum energy efficiency
       By: seo chandna Date: September 3, 2023, 6:39 am
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       Instead, the way governments have carried out the energy
       transition has seemed more like an attempt to put the present on
       hold and jump into the future by sheer force of will. European
       governments have profound new geopolitical reasons to aspire to
       a future they already desired, in which, as Angela Merkel
       declared in January 2020, Europe would become "the first
       continent free of co2". In other words: in the geopolitical and
       economic necessity of oil is the potential subordination; in the
       hope of solar and wind power and electrification is Emmanuel
       Macron's offer of European sovereignty.
       Yet the war could not have made the difficulty of such material
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       clearer. Energy forces both those who
       make war and those who suffer it: Ukraine transports Russian oil
       and gas to Europe through its pipelines; Russia pays Ukraine to
       transport those exports. When it comes to energy, even the
       transformative power of war has its limits. The options are now
       more difficult. The bet on a different energy future is already
       making it difficult for Germany to seek non-Russian gas supplies
       today. In March, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck traveled
       to Qatar to try to reach an agreement on LNG.
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       When a deal was finally reached on May 20, Germany could only
       hold a Qatari commitment for gas exported from the US Golden
       Pass plant from 2024 and a promise of new long-term supply
       talks. Much of the problem is that Qatar wants a 20+ year deal,
       while Germany wants to exit the gas market by 2040. More
       broadly, the question of whether governments and citizens will
       have to deal with constraints of fossil fuel supply in the face
       of the environmental imperatives of the energy transition brings
       us closer to an answer. Like Dickens's fictional character
       Wilkins Micawber, Western politicians can wait for "something to
       happen.
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