A global recession is on the horizon - please read OP for mod warning

Could you put chickens in an SUV when you can't afford to put petrol in it or insure it ?

I dunno, must have walked past several 2020+ Teslas today. Maybe singletons with good jobs in FAANG

Probably all experts in something useful like Facebook video censorship.

Put it one way every year the German economy directly gained 2 trillion Euro from 20 billion spent on very cheap Russian gas. If they have to buy at 2 times the price the economy loses one trillion Euro.

Now they are paying 3 times the price at least and looks like that will continue for a while longer.

My god I actually cried laughing at this

You copy and paste this from a COVID tread .

You might check the national media of France perhaps, Macron is working his absolute hardest but acknowledges that the time of plenty is over. Its been forecast by sitting politicians in Europe that we may face 10 years of bad winters. I encourage you to please check trusted media such as Reuters, BBC, and legitimate financial portals. It can be described without any questioning as a 'new normality', HOWEVER we must be happy to endure this multiyear transition to stand up for a great variety of things which solidify us together as on the correct path. We can all do this together.

I think I'm about the same age as our Revolutionary friend and if that's true, you'd have to be living under a rock to not understand why the economy was crashing in 2008.

I grew up in the 80's, the recession of early '93 finished the family business off, thankfully clung on to my job after the dot-com bust and then witnessed the worst of the lot in 2008. Back then it was actually scary, listening to the TV/radio there was a real fear as to whether bank savings were actually safe.

This one feels like a bump in the road that was inevitable after COVID. People continuing to work but who didn't have anywhere to spend the money put it aside, resulting in the inevitable scramble for trades work after lockdown was lifted, kickstarting inflation.

Then Vladdy boy threw a (large to be fair) spanner in the works at an inopportune moment to complicate matters. Having to change our energy habits in a hurry is always going to hurt. However, LNG storage in Europe is almost full, the price of gas is dropping fast - UK gas futures are down 82p or 21% to 304p/therm today, from a high of 706p/therm just three weeks ago. The jig is up there, I feel (I see parallels with the twin oil crises in the 70's).

We'll make it through this one, just like we did with all the others, and anyone claiming it's the end of days needs to take a long hard look at themselves in the mirror and really ask themselves what they're championing here. Sadly, when you're down the rabbit hole of paranoia it's hard to drag yourself back up.

I would take what politicians are saying about the upcoming gas crisis taking with a very large pinch of salt. If for example millions of peoples lives was going to be made a lot lot worse do you think they would tell us ? You can tell panic is setting in now and at some point they are going to have to explain to people what could actually happen.

Talk of storage is total **** also, because it is not what volume is in storage it is how much can come out, how do you get it out, how do you get it from A to B safely.