Dear Europe, Trump Warned You; Irish Small Café Owner Gets $10,000 Electricity Bill, More to Follow

Poor Geraldine Dolan of Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland. She just wants to run her little coffee shop and sandwich bar known as the Poppy Fields Café.

It turns out that this VERY small eatery right in the dead-center of the Emerald Isle now owes Electric Ireland just a whisp under an eye-popping $10,000 (€9,836) for just a tad over two months’ worth of electricity.

As of September 1 at 2:34 AM UTC, one euro is of equal worth to one US dollar, give or take one-hundredth of a penny either way.

Also keep in mind that something called a VAT (Value Added Tax, something that both Clinton and Obama tried like hell to foist upon the American taxpayers) will be prominently mentioned later in this article.

What VAT is… basically if you buy whatever good or service (in our case, Geraldine buying electricity), and your end-product (Geraldine’s profit from selling beverages, snacks and meals) has more **value** than the initial good or service you purchased, of course, you’re an evil capitalist and need to be taxed accordingly for what you first had to pay for (Geraldine’s electricity) in the first place.

By the way, President Trump warned Europe what would happen if Putin’s Russia should ever decide to flex his petro-muscles.

Nearly one-tenth of her bill is VAT.

Of course, the likes of Deutsche Welle , Le Monde and the BBC reliably force-fed to the European people that Trump was a buffoon who didn’t know what he was talking about. All those decades of his real-world business experience mattered for naught.

With all that aside, back to the sad saga of our Geraldine.

It turns out that this bill isn’t just a one-off fluke or a clerical error. This really is the current price of energy in Ireland.

And when I say “The price of energy in Ireland,” I mean increases that the populace will factually see in the rest of Europe in the coming weeks and months. The possible only exception would be France. They’ve invested heavily in nuclear power.

On with the story of Geraldine’s coffee shop.

As reported by Niamh Anderson of The Irish Sun news service (emphasis mine);

A CAFE owner has told of her shock after receiving an eye-watering electricity bill for nearly €10,000.

Geraldine Dolan, owner of Poppyfields Cafe in Athlone, Co Westmeath, shared a snap of her electricity bill on Twitter which is dated from June 8 to August 19.

And during the ten week-period, her small business racked up a massive bill of €9,836.

In the caption, she wrote: “I got this electricity bill today, how in the name of God is this possible, we’re a small coffee shop in Westmeath.”

The business owner explained her bill has now quadrupled in price per day, excluding VAT.

She said: “Just got my bill yesterday for 73 days, it’s gone from €34 a day to €123 a day ex VAT.”

Oh, but it doesn’t end there. Reporter Anderson also noted (emphasis mine);

Geraldine revealed she has consulted an energy analyst, who believes the bill is correct for the stated time-period.

It comes as households and businesses were warned they’re likely to see their electricity and gas bills rise further, as the soaring wholesale cost of gas hit an all-time European high earlier this week.

SSE Airtricity announced it is to increase prices for its customers from October 1, with electricity bills to rise by over 35 per cent, and gas bills to increase by 39 per cent.

Europe willingly goes back to the Dark Ages.

And price comparison website Bonkers.ie has said it expects more suppliers to follow suit in the coming weeks.

As cited by the Irish news site BreakingNews.ie, a full 87.3 percent of all of Ireland’s energy needs are met by fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal), all of which must be imported.

The website Geological Survey Ireland notes that a rather large region of Ireland is literally sitting atop a small ocean of shale oil;

“The area known as the Northwest Ireland Carboniferous Basin has been identified as a shale rich area, this comprises parts of Fermanagh, Cavan, Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal and Roscommon.”

The same article also notes that the practice of fracking has also been outlawed within the Irish Republic.

Let’s hope for their sake that Ireland has a mild winter.

In the meantime, I personally hope their high-sounding green morals keep them warm… and in business.


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