"Return my air..."

"Give me the air!"

"Give me back the water..."

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"Give me back the water!"

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At the entrance of a large power plant in Detroit, a group of environmentalists gathered here to protest. Although there were not many people participating in the protest, only a few thousand people, they blocked the entrance and exit of the power plant. On the road outside the power plant, one after another car carrying coal was blocked on the road. The drivers looked at the protesting crowds ahead from time to time, praying that the group could get out of the way as soon as possible and let them send coal to the power plant.

As the most developed capitalist country in the world, electricity is the lifeblood of American industry. However, because the US power system has been accustomed to using coal as the main energy for many years, in the United States, the cost of using coal to generate electricity is much greater than the cost of natural gas. For American power plants, coal is still the main fuel for power plants. Although the profits of power plants are generally high and the cost of natural gas is even cheaper, if coal-fired generator sets are to be transformed into natural gas-powered generator sets, it will cost a lot of renovation costs. Not only that, the losses caused by the shutdown of power plants during the renovation period are a considerable expense, so most power plants do not have a plan to adopt natural gas.

Seryosha now has a large amount of natural gas resources. For the Gorky Group, the more natural gas is used as the main energy source in the United States and Western Europe, the more natural gas is used as the main energy source, the more profits the Gorky Group will make. But how can these power plants spontaneously invest a large amount of money to transform coal-fired units into natural gas units? From the perspective of power plants, they will definitely not have this power. That's why Seryosha will fund environmental protection groups to protest at the door of the power plants.

Since the late 1980s, environmentalism has gradually emerged in the developed Western Europe and North America, and has gradually become a force that can influence politics and votes. Especially in 1985, when the British Antarctic scientific expedition team discovered the ozone hole in the 60-degree south latitude, it attracted the attention of the whole world. It has also led people to pay attention to the pollution of the atmosphere.

Seriosha is not an environmentalist, and manipulating those environmental groups to make profits for themselves is Seriosha's ultimate goal. The only thing that can make politicians be led by the nose in the United States is the vote. Since Seriosha has set his sights on the huge power market in the United States, Seriosha has been constantly acquiring natural gas fields in Texas and building natural gas pipelines on a large scale. On the other hand, Kalim has begun to provide large amounts of funds to environmental groups, especially environmental groups that are concerned about air pollution.

With Kalim's arrangement, dozens of environmental protection groups have begun to pay attention to the pollution of American power plants. Especially now, the main thermal power plants have become prey for environmental protection groups to attack.

The pollutants caused by thermal power plants are mainly waste gas, waste water, and waste slag. These three pollutants are not available to natural gas power plants. From the perspective of protecting the environment, natural gas power generation has inherent advantages.

With the fuel of Kalim's motivation, major media across the United States began to suddenly pay attention to the problem of three waste pollution in power plants. Although the American media has not been involved in the Gorky Group, as long as you have money, it is not difficult to continue to pay attention to a certain social hot spot in a short period of time.

It was under this subtle arrangement that the American media began to convey a message to the audience in front of the TV that thermal power generation is endangering our health and destroying our environment. The shots of black smoke coming out of the towering chimneys are chilling, although most of those shots were taken in the 1950s and 1960s.

Due to the intervention of the media, environmental groups' angry calls for coal-fired power plants have caused great response. In Detroit, the most developed automobile industry in the United States, angry environmentalists began to gather in front of large power plants. They used their bodies to block the roads in front of the power plants and block the transportation of coal-carrying vehicles. The normal work of many coal-fired power plants has been disrupted.

The U.S. power grid is mainly composed of three parts: the Eastern U.S. power system, the Western U.S. power system, and the Texas power system. These three power systems are independent of each other and do not interfere with each other. Under these three power systems, more than 180 power generation companies provide grid power. In other words, although the power grid system has been integrated, the power generation companies are still in a mess. If Seriosha intends to take action, none of these more than 180 power generation companies are Sriosha's opponents.

In order to avoid suspicion caused by the US Department of Energy due to excessive monopoly, Seriosha arranged two of its subsidiaries to participate in the acquisition of the power grid. One is the natural gas group that has been deeply engaged in the field of natural gas power generation for many years and has its own natural gas deposits and gas pipelines. The other is the British Electric Power Company, which Seriosha had been included many years ago.

In order to gain cost advantages and avoid the large amount of expenses caused by traveling from Leningrad to the United States, Seriosha used his Occupy Oil Company to reach a gas-exchange agreement with the world's No. 1 oil company BP, which is to use the natural gas share obtained by Occupy Oil from the Soviet Union to exchange BP's natural gas share in North America, which not only supplemented BP's natural gas reserves in Europe, but also enriched the Gorky Consortium's natural gas reserves in the North American market.

All-in-one, Seriosha soon launched a round of acquisitions in the power market in the United States. For coal-fired power plants that are willing to sell, Seriosha can meet the seller's bid at any cost. Then Enron's natural gas pipeline will be directly connected to the power plant. For those power plants that are unwilling to sell, it is naturally environmental protection groups that disrupt their normal power generation activities. With this despicable means, Enron's group heads north from Texas, while British Power Company goes west along the east coast of the United States, and swallows up American power manufacturers.

Due to the extremely low power price of Enron Group, many large American manufacturing companies, such as Ford Motor, General Motors, and Chrysler Automobile, have begun to sign power cooperation agreements with Enron Group and the British Power Company, and the situation of Enron and British Power Company being both strong in the US power market is taking shape.
Chapter completed!