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Macron: EU has only 2 or 3 years to stave off total US, China dominance (www.politico.eu)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

...and those 2 or 3 years were 35 years ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

More like 75 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly, there's zero chance EU could compete with China or the US at this point. Energy costs alone make that a non starter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, some of them do have a huge supply of lignite (/s except those who are already feverishly mining it)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Ligmite balls

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

clean energy German style