WHO’S YER BUDDY, WHO’S YER PAL?

That’s a trick question, right?
It sure must seem like one to the Europeans right now. You know – that continent where they’d hamstrung themselves so badly transitioning to unreliable renewables before the technology was ready and without making sure they’d saved enough of their old power generation to cover the difference? The same continent where the powers that be figured that natural gas – liquid natural gas (LNG) – would be the backup energy source for electrical plants when the wind didn’t blow and the sun didn’t shine? Some of the virtue signaling European countries were also confidently closing their own LNG wells and processing plants, because the Russians and other places had plenty to replace those, so there were no worries about supplies…until there were.
Until wars blew up and so did pipelines,…