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Comment by belorn

You are right to a degree. In reality gas and oil get put into reserves which acts as buffers for the actually consumption of the fossil fuels. During periods of good wind/solar weather, the buffers start to fill up, and when demand for fossil fuel energy rises the buffers get emptied.

There is however the ability to increase/decrease imports when needed by adding more transport trucks or reduce the flow in the pipe lines.

A graph over CO2 emissions is thus more useful in this context since they follow the actually consumption of gas/oil/coal, and has a direct connection with the market price for which the above graphs represent.

parent belorn 4 years ago

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