“By invading Ukraine and manipulating energy supplies to undermine European support for Kyiv, Putin has achieved something generations of green campaigners could not — clean energy is now a fundamental matter of European security,” the news outlet explained approvingly.
It went on to note that Putin “invaded Ukraine after the EU had spent two years laying the foundations of its Green Deal program for zeroing out emissions by 2050. That meant the policy machinery for a total remake of the European energy economy was already moving. All it needed was a nudge.”
You would have to be pretty severely afflicted with Climate Change Derangement Syndrome to celebrate a silver lining in Putin’s murderous attack on Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Europe has sprinted so far ahead of the United States in its quest to end the use of fossil fuels that many U.S. politicians, environmentalists and media voices look on with envy.
But how is Europe’s Green New Deal going now that Putin has given it “a nudge”?
So far, the results are, to say the least, unencouraging. Euroland has been thrust into an epic energy crisis with electricity rationing, power outages, $10 a gallon gas and citizens encouraged by governments to use candles for lights and burning wood for heating purposes. Germany is reopening shuttered nuclear plants to avoid perpetual blackouts. It’s a return to the Dark Ages in Europe — and the climate change lobby is loving the return to chaos and mayhem.
This might be a slight exaggeration, but not much of one. The government in France has now warned of acute energy shortages this winter with drastic steps to conserve. As one publication put it, Paris, the City of Lights, may have to turn off the lights in the weeks and months ahead if it’s a cold winter.
Officials in Paris have decreed that local authorities must prepare power outage plans “that would reduce consumption of electricity by up to 38%.” Wait, there’s more: “The French government said it was working alongside the Ministry of Education to develop plans to close schools in the mornings if the area is to be impacted by rolling blackouts.” It sounds to me like climate change is the new COVID-19 for militant lockdowns and curfews.
Germany’s energy shortage is so severe that one of the fastest-growing energy sectors is coal. That’s because the Germans have declared war on natural gas, so because of the self-inflicted energy crisis, they are forced to use an energy source that emits more greenhouse gases. Wood is also becoming a major source of heating homes. The Dark Ages are back.
Then there is the calamity that is unfolding in Switzerland. This is a country that is anything but a heavy-handed socialist state, but now thanks to the “energy state of emergency,” which is the norm in Europe, the Swiss government has announced it will ban the use of electric cars for “nonessential” journeys. At the same time, it is encouraging people to take the train to shop for their groceries, but it has admitted that train service may also be disrupted.
That’s not all. The government is also drawing up plans for dealing with blackouts that include reducing store hours by up to two hours per day, heating systems in nightclubs to be turned off and other buildings to be heated to no more than 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Online streaming services and game consoles could be banned. Christmas lights might be turned off, and all sports stadiums and leisure facilities could be closed.
Is Europe turning into a third-world banana republic?
All of this brings us to a stark reality. Europe has gone all-in on wind and solar power, and the experiment has failed miserably. These fringe energy sources don’t work and aren’t scalable for industrial economies. And the more it doesn’t work, the more it requires police state interventions with fascistic controls over the economy and personal behavior. All of these assaults on freedom and prosperity are in the name of...
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I wonder how much their immigrants from the third world will love the place as power is cut? I have not been to Europe for at least 15 years but gasoline costs were about $6 a gallon at the time compared to US $2.5 per gallon at the time.
In the big cities they have better metro layouts then the US but without power nothing works. They still use cars heavily like the USA, but they use trains more than the USA for people.
A self inflicted slide toward communism. Meanwhile the former communist Russia is doing just fine. Idiots!
Naw, the 3rd world trespassers and-for what it's worth to them-natives gotta have thy "footzballz" stadiums lit for pratice & games.
Totalitarian control isn't only necessary as these green energy schemes are pushed upon us, they are part of the plan. Governments ALWAYS want total control over their people. That is why the founders in the USA went to such great lengths to develop such a convoluted system of government. It was all supposed to have "checks and balances" to slow the universal trait of politicians being greedy and power hungry.
The only problem is that the system was designed for a moral people who would do their duty to reign in their government from time to time when it strayed. Our population has become lazy, greedy and envious. They now sit at home and vote to give themselves "free" handouts, not realizing that it costs everyone through inflation.
Even 200 years ago, the founding fathers saw this coming.
My daughter lives in Norway. Has for 5 years now. She got home this week and was astonished how grubby her little hometown felt! I agree, we are not shiny and the new world any longer. Norway has offered her a PhD in the field she loves and now a very high level position that treats her like gold and promises her a very good life.
BTW she chose Norway over other nations because it was so clean, as clean as she felt our Island is/was.
Somehow it seems Norway has escaped most of these problems.
Ever Google a satellite picture of North Korea at night? It's almost completely blacked out as opposed to south Korea. This winter Europe is going to look just like it while Russia keeps all its lights on just for spite....
I have a buddy that is an Army contractor at Panzer Kaserne just outside Stuttgart. He has shipped his wife and kids to his in-laws in Korea and he is living in his office. He has a fuel ration and he keeps his car full of fuel. He is working out at the gym and using the shower there. He is eating microwave meals and a lot of Raman noodles. The water is turned off and the lines blown at his condo so he has it basically in storage mode with the fridge cleaned out and open and everything turned off.
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