If you have an adversary like Putin who hates you, who is a net energy exporter, it is

incumbent upon you to allow every molecule he's willing to sell to reach the market and

then to flood the market with your own so that you drive price down.

Oil sold from minus $37 a barrel at the peak of the COVID crisis, nobody was making any

money in the oil patch.

If our objective is to starve Putin's warm machine of cash, the only way to do it is to

flood the world with molecules, driving the price way down and crushing his revenue.

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Motley Fool's senior analyst Nick Cypill caught up with Dumburg for a chat about the state

of Europe's energy crisis, nuclear's place in a decarbonized future and what the Nord

Stream pipeline attack means for the world.

One of the tag lines that you use very regularly is the term energy is life.

Can you explain to our listeners what you mean by that?

So energy is literally life in the sense that the human endeavor is a constant unrelenting

struggle against the forces of entropy and in order to beat back entropy and to impose

order on your local environment, you need to waste heat, you need to waste energy.

And your standard of living is quite literally measured by how much energy you get to waste.

And that sounds weird but it's sort of fundamental laws of physics, second law of thermodynamics.

And it's not often thought of in that way because for most of today's sort of intelligentsia,

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