Lisa Benson for July 28, 2022

Is this why republicans are against renewable energy?

Donkey’s to the rescue again

If only Europe hadn’t put all their eggs in the Russian Basket and laughed at the people who said that might not be the smartest policy in the world, we might not be in a position where we have to send… What’s the total now? $40 Billion or is it $50 Billion to Ukraine…?

The Russians said that they would never, never use energy as a weapon of war. If you believed them, you will believe a Republican.

It was Trump who told Merkel of Germany that the pipeline from Russia would be a mistake.

I’ve read they’re rationing the gas.

Maybe Germany shouldn’t have listened to the Greenies when they demanded that all of Germany’s nuclear reactors be shut down. Now they’re faced with the choice of opening their coal fired plants or freezing to death. Maybe we should take a lesson from them.

You may come across some comments by the typical ignorant and misinformed RWNJs who want you to believe that their Fascist Orange Clown warned Germany about a pipeline from Russia. If so then at the age of about 23 he was a self-anointed genius and great seer of the future who had direct contact with Germany’s leadership.

The Guardian had a recent article about the German-Russian arrangement that the Germans now see (no other choice) as a bad deal. It’s another example of politicians not planning for future generations.

OnSunday 1 February 1970, senior politicians and gas executives from Germany and the Soviet Union gathered at the upmarket Hotel Kaiserhof in Essen. They were there to celebrate the signing of a contract for the first major Russia-Germany gas pipeline, which was to run from Siberia to the West German border at Marktredwitz in Bavaria….

[Then we read that…]

…Half a century later, in 2020, Russia would supply more than half of Germany’s natural gas and about a third of all the oil that Germans burned to heat homes, power factories and fuel vehicles. Roughly half of Germany’s coal imports, which are essential to its steel manufacturing, came from Russia.

An arrangement that began as a peacetime opening to a former foe has turned into an instrument of aggression. Germany is now funding Russia’s war.

Literally, “chill out dude”! It is still the middle of summer in Europe. Maybe if they are lucky our former president’s best Helsinki buddy will curl up and die by winter.

First Lisa Benson cartoon in weeks that actually makes sense.

do not know where RAGs lives, but in California it is the libs who fight most of the green proposals

Nothing on falling gas prices today?

Europe has no business using Russian gas.