https://archive.md/2q8Zv
"Europe’s most remarkable response to Russia’s war on Ukraine hasn’t been
marshaling military equipment and billions of euros in aid. It’s been the
unprecedented speed of an energy transition that in one year has nearly
eliminated its dependence on Russian fossil fuels in an attempt to strangle the
key source of funding for President Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
The shift has been far from the kind of climate-first transition that Europe
has envisioned for its long-term future, with governments paying whatever it
takes to secure liquefied sources of natural gas brought in by ships, burning
more coal and ripping up some environmental plans in the process. And it’s been
painful, with Europe getting hit by a roughly $1 trillion energy bill last
year, cushioned by hundreds of billions of euros of government subsidies.
Still, even the most optimistic outlooks from analysts and the bloc’s own
leaders at the outset of the war failed to predict how quickly Europe could
move. A year ago, Europe spent about $1 billion a day to pay for gas, oil, and
coal imported from Russia. Today, it pays a small fraction of that amount.
“Russia blackmailed us by threatening to cut the energy supply,” European
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said earlier this month. “We have
completely got rid of our dependency on Russian fossil fuels. It went much
faster than we expected.”"
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