🌐🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇭🇺Dr. Máté Tóth’s quick analysis as an “energy lawyer”‼️
Ukraine, located near our Carpathian region and stretching to Transnistria, is now blocking oil transit as a gratitude for our humanitarian aid in the billions. What this peculiar country is doing is seriously against international law. According to the Energy Charter, of which Ukraine is a party, transit serving other countries must always be ensured!
So far the facts. Following Portfolio.hu and Politico – obviously the entire Atlantist press will fall in line with them in a matter of hours – they are already subtly whitewashing the Ukrainians, because we must understand this, and then they push it onto the Hungarians, especially. Okay, we didn’t expect anything different from them. However, in addition, they have also started an incredible scaremongering, spreading rumors against our country.
1) On the one hand, Politico and Portfolio.hu claim through a certain Ilona Gizinska, some sort of unheard of, now brought up “expert brain trust” so-called Hungary expert (sic!) that the Hungarians “could face soaring energy prices and electricity shortages within weeks”, as “there are oil-based power generating units in Hungary.”
Contrary to this, we need to know: NO, THERE ARE NONE. Power generating units operated by heavy fuel oil were gradually closed or converted in the 1990s and around the turn of the millennium. For example, the Dunaújváros Power Plant switched its blocks from heavily polluting heavy fuel oil to gas in 2003 (this is called retrofitting). Today, there is minimal capacity left, three quick-start blocks (Sajószöged, Litér, Lőrinci), but essentially nothing.
Hungary’s energy mix in reality: ~45% nuclear (Paks), ~27% renewable (half of this is solar), ~20% natural gas, ~7% coal/lignite. So there will be no skyrocketing energy prices or power outages, despite the panic the Atlantic-globalist press is trying to stir up, which, amidst fear-mongering, somehow “forgot” to condemn Ukraine’s actions. Never mind. The point is: we don’t produce electricity from oil, so contrary to the scaremongering, the hostile and grossly illegal Ukrainian move will not affect domestic energy prices or electricity.
2) As for oil, the not only hostile but downright illegal Ukrainian behavior is poignant for us, and the blackmail and political threats from a country that allegedly needs help and allies are outrageous. It hurts us.
However, the Politico, Portfolio.hu, and the current “brain trust” “Hungary expert” are silent about the fact that Hungary today has exactly 667.6 kilotonnes (576.8 ktoe) of crude oil, 516.4 kilotonnes (557.7 ktoe) of gas oil, 240.5 kilotonnes (259.9 ktoe) of gasoline, and 14.2 kilotonnes (15.3 ktoe) of kerosene as strategic reserves. This is more than 90 days’ worth of each, separately!
And this is just our legally required emergency stock: the reserves of refineries, wholesalers, etc. are there too, those barrels are not just for the background of portfolio articles, but exactly for such cases.
So the so-called “Hungary expert” echoed everywhere by the press, Ilonka aunty, who is a sociologist by education and a politician by profession, is as much an expert as, say, Calum Nicholson, a social anthropologist.
So let’s not fall for lies, scaremongering, and panic. Just as this press is currently washing away its climate emergency scaremongering with rain clouds, let’s not believe in power outages or oil supply emergencies either.
