[d0mine]

Europe essentially banned cheap energy sources.

The winter is coming. Despite global warming, somebody (starts with U, ends with S) will make a pretty penny. It will teach those EU socialists (healthcare, education, functional public transport) how to do business. Fixing somebody's problem that you yourself created--Godfather would be proud.

[MichaelCollins]

> Europe essentially banned cheap energy sources. The winter is coming. Despite global warming, somebody (starts with U, ends with S) will make a pretty penny.

Ah yes, the country of Urussias. Or perhaps you mean Unorways. Or Ualgerias? Or Usaudi Arabias?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_policy_of_the_European_...

[d0mine]

"The tug of war between Europe and the biggest buyers in North Asia caused the price of LNG to soar, and contributed to a quadrupling of European benchmark gas prices between the start of 2022 and late August."

x4 price increase!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/what-lng-can-...

Though the increase in military spendings may eclipse that.

[finiteseries]

That graphic needs to be updated to reflect an entirely different new world, it’s from 2016, the same year the US lifted a 40 year old ban on oil & gas exports.

It’s now the largest LNG exporter in the world in 2022, though that hardly benefits the country directly in terms of making a pretty penny.

[MichaelCollins]

> LNG

LNG only accounts for a small portion of the EU natural gas imports, most of their gas is imported in gaseous form.

Main extra-EU partners for imports of natural gas, 2021:

    Russia: 39.2%
    Norway: 25.1%
    Algeria: 8.2%
    United States: 7.3%  <-- The one you're blaming.
    United Kingdom: 6.5%

All natural gas import, LNG and gaseous combined, only account for 24.9% of EU energy imports. In 2021, 61.8% of EU energy imports were crude oil.

Main extra-EU partners for imports of petroleum oil, 2021:

    Russia: 24.8%
    Norway 9.4%
    United States: 8.8%  <-- The one you're blaming.
    Libya: 8.2%
    Kazakhstan: 8.0%

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

[finiteseries]

EU imports of US LNG eclipsed monthly Russian pipeline output as recently as June.

These figures will be updated to reflect an entirely different new world. They’re from 2021, the year before Russia invaded Ukraine and Europe’s energy supply was dramatically changed at both ends.

Natural gas in the EU is generally used to heat homes and power industry, it and other sources of energy aren’t immediately fungible.

I don’t subscribe to realism and don’t personally blame anyone but Russia and the EU member energy policies responsible for this situation unlike the Russian sympathetic commenter you originally responded to, but using pre war figures on top of pre export ban statistics does border closely on disingenuity given how loudly and rapidly changes have been occurring in 2022.

[MichaelCollins]

Knock Russia off those lists and America still isn't close to the largest source of energy imported by the EU. Even for somebody inclined to conspiracy beliefs, why blame the US instead of Norway? Because he has a grudge against America, obviously.