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Financing European energy infrastructure | 49 comments (49 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: A high energy price is, I'm guessing, fundame (none / 1)
The high prices actually have nothing to do with any environmental concerns, and everything to do with the deregulation of the power market and lining the pockets of corporate fat cats, including the over-payed exectuives at state-owned Vattenfall. The chairman of the board was fired last week by the government due to corruption over corporate compensation.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid on Wed Mar 30th, 2011 at 05:23:28 AM EST
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Let me reformulate that... (none / 0)
If they were playing the game and letting letting the market operate, electricity prices would sometimes be lower, or in other words, prices would fluctuate more.

Would this not be problematic for the zero-carbon plan?

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by eurogreen on Wed Mar 30th, 2011 at 12:39:33 PM EST
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Re: Let me reformulate that... (4.00 / 3)
Not really, Swedish electricity is almost zero-carbon as it is. If anything keeping the electricity price elevated makes it harder to get electricity to replace oil in traffic.

Note also that Vattenfall uses part of the profits to expand buy buying coal and nuclear on the continent and stripmining pictoresque German villages for low grade coal. So while high prices could be part of a green strategy, it is not so here. It is just part of Vattenfall's strategy for empire building.

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by A swedish kind of death on Wed Mar 30th, 2011 at 12:44:22 PM EST
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Re: Let me reformulate that... (none / 0)
This one of those things that piss me off the most. So much that I wrote a debate article for the local paper last fall - and got it published!

It's in Swedish, but at least you can read it. :)

   

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Wed Mar 30th, 2011 at 12:52:09 PM EST
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Re: Let me reformulate that... (none / 0)
Good proposals for regulation. Did you get any reactions?

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by A swedish kind of death on Wed Mar 30th, 2011 at 02:42:20 PM EST
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Re: Let me reformulate that... (none / 0)
Lots of positive e-mails from readers to the newspaper, but no replying article arguing against my proposals.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid on Wed Mar 30th, 2011 at 03:05:58 PM EST
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Re: Let me reformulate that... (4.00 / 2)
A friend of mine who is an active social democrat wrote a proposition to their regional annual meeting which was more or less verbatim based on this article. It was shot down for being too far to the left, and probably contrary to a number of EU rules.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid on Wed Mar 30th, 2011 at 03:09:16 PM EST
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Re: Let me reformulate that... (none / 1)
Far to left of the Socialdemocrats? You commie :)

But that is a good result from an article.

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by A swedish kind of death on Thu Mar 31st, 2011 at 12:29:42 PM EST
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Financing European energy infrastructure | 49 comments (49 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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