{"id":12144,"date":"2020-01-17T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12144"},"modified":"2020-01-16T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:01:47","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-chaos-in-europe-its-tricky-being-worlds-largest-importer-of-gas-oil-and-critic-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-chaos-in-europe-its-tricky-being-worlds-largest-importer-of-gas-oil-and-critic-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: Chaos in Europe \u2013 It&#8217;s tricky being world&#8217;s largest importer of gas, oil and critic, too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite its cool Green parties and ambitious wind and solar&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/planet-earth\/energy\">agendas<\/a>, Europe remains by far the world\u2019s largest importer of oil and natural gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oil output in the North Sea and off the coast of Norway is declining, and the European Union is quietly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/the-european-union\">looking<\/a>&nbsp;for fossil fuel energy anywhere it can find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Europe itself is naturally rich in fossil fuels. It likely has more reserves of shale gas than the United States, currently the world\u2019s largest producer of both oil and natural gas. Yet in most European countries, horizontal drilling and fracking to extract\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/planet-earth\/energy\">gas<\/a>\u00a0and oil are either illegal or face so many court challenges and popular protests that they are neither culturally nor economically feasible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result is that Europe is almost entirely dependent on Russian, Middle Eastern and African sources of energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The American-Iranian standoff in the Middle East, coupled with radical drop-offs in Iranian and Venezuelan oil production, has terrified Europe \u2014 and for understandable reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/victor-david-hanson-europ-importer-gas-oil\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News Despite its cool Green parties and ambitious wind and solar&nbsp;agendas, Europe remains by far the world\u2019s largest importer of oil and natural gas. Oil output in the North Sea and off the coast of Norway is declining, and the European Union is quietly&nbsp;looking&nbsp;for fossil fuel energy anywhere it can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-39S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":632,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-world-is-changing-minute-by-minute\/","url_meta":{"origin":12144,"position":0},"title":"The World Is Changing Minute by Minute","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services We are witnessing a seismic shift in global affairs. 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