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Gas prices are closely related to oil prices. Therefore, a blow is also
being struck at LNG prices, which means that an agreement between
America and China on a large-scale purchase by the latter of huge
volumes of American LNG to equalize the balance of payments between
these countries will become unrealizable because of market prices that
become lower than the cost of American LNG and will cause financial
losses to US suppliers. The gap in the balance of payments between
America and China will increase even more, because Chinese producers
of goods will receive very cheap energy resources and will be able to
increase sales of their goods to America, which will cause an additional
blow to American producers of goods. In this situation, America will be
forced to impose increased duties on Chinese goods, in response to
receiving prohibitive duties on American goods. And so in a circle, the
end of which is not visible.
Energy is the blood of the economy and any shocks in this market are
fatal to it. Economic sanctions and all kinds of restrictions lead only to the
desire of the economies of countries to self-isolation, which puts an end
to the liberal idea of a world division of labor and free movement of
capital. With this concept, the German economy has already begun to
suffer, as it is oriented to a large extent on exports.
To protect the national economy from the effects of oil and gas crises,
states can insure themselves with the transition to alternative energy if
they wish. However, low oil and gas prices jeopardize its
competitiveness, which will negatively affect, for example, the rapid
transition of the population to electric cars when abandoning internal
combustion engines. With such uncertainty and an unstable situation in
the field of energy resources, more advanced and cheaper technologies
for generating electricity are needed than solar and wind generation.
Holger Schubart, CEO Neutrino Energy Group