Energy crisis?

In the past month a lot has been written about surging oil and gas prices around the world. A few articles that might be worth reading can be found below.

1. Enorme afhankelijkheid van energie uit de VS zorgt in Nederland voor ongemak (Dutch only)
   

2. Energieschok treft Europa (Dutch only)
   

3. Oil surges like the one we’ve seen recently have consistently preceded recessions

And what does the US president? He will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S. offshore wind leases as the administration ramps up its campaign against offshore wind and other renewable energy.

4. Trump administration to pay French company $1B to walk away from US offshore wind leases

Sources: iex.nl, ANP, NOS, Otavio Costa, Thierry Borgeat, AP, yahoo! News, Meizhi Lang