As the Green New Deal’s implementation unleashes a spreading energy and economic chaos, bank analysts are putting out predictions, not hard to arrive at, that coal and natural gas power shortages are going to start shutting down businesses in Europe, as they have done briefly in some of the industrial cities of China. Meanwhile, spiking European gas and electricity prices are forcing Dutch greenhouses to limit output or go dark, Bloomberg News Oct. 1. [https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/your-tomatoes-may-cost-more-as-gas-prices-hit-dutch-greenhouses]
The Netherlands is second only to the United States for food exports by value, primarily thanks to 25,000 acres of greenhouses which depend on natural gas and electricity for heating. Its exports of vegetables like cucumbers, tomatoes and bell peppers, and flowers, from greenhouses were $10.7 billion in 2020. In these categories only Spain exports more, and it, too, will have food output cut by shortages of energy and carbon dioxide.
