"This Is Beyond Imagination": Polish Homeowners Line Up For Days To Buy Coal Ahead Of Winter
"People are sleeping in their cars. I remember the communist times but it didn't cross my mind that we could return to something even worse."
"This Is Beyond Imagination": Polish Homeowners Line Up For Days To Buy Coal Ahead Of Winter
The Polish people can hold their heads up high, as they wait, knowing they’re an ally (bff) of the USA and knowing Ukraine, the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe, is also their bff and the Ukrainians, the people from the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe, are their bff’s …….
And Poland, this country of 38 million people, they now have more time, as they wait, to think about how they’re going to continue to house and feed (and provide medical care, clothing, heat ….) for 5 million Ukrainian refugees, indefinitely, for free!
And it’s not as if all 5 million Ukrainian refugees are laying on Polish couches watching Polish cable TV as their Polish patrons patiently wait for coal to keep their Ukrainian guests / bff’s (and themselves) nice and warm and toasty throughout those long brutally cold Eastern European winters.
Why no sireee. Some of the Ukrainian refugees have already taken Polish jobs and are already hard at work at the Polish jobs they took. Which gives more Polish people more time to do other things like ….. wait in line for days for coal for some heat during their long brutally cold Eastern European winters.
BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, AUG 28, 2022 - 09:55 AM
Several weeks ago we reported that amid Europe's mindblowing gas and electricity prices, Deutsche Bank predicted that a growing number of German households will be using firewood for heating, a forecast which appears to have become self-fulfilling as German google searches for firewood ("brennholz") had since exploded off the charts:
But while Germans are still "searching" merely in the virtual realm, for countless Poles the search is all too real.
According to Reuters, with Poland still basking in the late summer heat, hundreds of cars and trucks have already lined up at the Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka coal mine, as householders fearful of winter shortages wait for days and nights to stock up on heating fuel ahead of the coming cold winter in queues reminiscent of communist times.
Artur, 57, a pensioner, drove up from Swidnik, some 30 km (18 miles) from the mine in eastern Poland on Tuesday, hoping to buy several tonnes of coal for himself and his family.
"Toilets were put up today, but there's no running water," he said, after three nights of sleeping in his small red hatchback in a crawling queue of trucks, tractors towing trailers and private cars. "This is beyond imagination, people are sleeping in their cars. I remember the communist times but it didn't cross my mind that we could return to something even worse."
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