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Imported Materials Are Manageable, Imported Energy Reprices Economies

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Europe’s gas crisis in 2022 is often described as a supply shock driven by geopolitics, but that framing misses the core lesson. The crisis was not caused by import dependence in general, nor by shortages of industrial feedstocks. It was caused by reliance on an imported energy carrier that sat … [continued]

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Germany’s Hydrogen Strategy Delayed Electrification by Pulling the Workforce the Wrong Way

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Germany’s hydrogen backbone with no customers and no suppliers has been examined from multiple angles in this series, starting with the pipeline from nowhere to nowhere itself and the energy and other demand flows that won’t materialize, then moving through Germany’s misguided analyses that led to it, the implications of … [continued]

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Republicans Set to Kill Giant EV Charging Program

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Following up on the counterproductive decision to pull the plug on the US EV tax credit, Republicans in Congress are now looking to kill the giant US EV charging program that was created by Democrats during the Biden administration. Yes, this is the program Donald Trump tried to halt in … [continued]

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