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** Europe's Energy Suicide: The EU Admits the World Runs on Fossil Fuels — While Deliberately Destroying Its Own ([link removed])
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by Drieu Godefridi • April 24, 2026 at 6:00 am
* [W]ithin Europe itself... institutions pursue the systematic dismantling ([link removed]) of their own domestic fossil fuel capacities.
* The result is not environmental salvation. It is an engineered dependency that can only delight oil-producers such as Russia.
* Households face increasingly high energy bills that contribute to widespread energy poverty: official EU figures show that roughly 9-10% of the population, more than 40 million people, struggle ([link removed]) to heat their homes.
* « [T]he only cases in which the masses have escaped from ... grinding poverty ... in recorded history are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worst off, it's exactly in the kind of societies that depart from that." – Milton Friedman, economist, aei.org ([link removed]) , December 3, 2013
* Fossil fuels are not opposed merely for their emissions; they are opposed because they underwrite prosperity, independence, and power — attributes the cultural Marxist worldview seeks to delegitimize. An affluent independant public is harder to control.Politically, if you are poor and dependant, there is the possibility that you will kep reelcting your incompetent leaders in the hooe that they will rescue you. It is in their interest not to – and instead, just to keep dangling the promise of rescue in front of you.
* Europe does not lack energy resources. It lacks the political will to use them. England's North Sea resources alone are a treasure-trove waiting to happen. Until policymakers confront the ideological roots of this self-defeating strategy — and prioritize the security and prosperity of their own citizens over utopian visions — the continent will continue its slide toward deindustrialization, mass-hardship and strategic irrelevance.

The European Union's energy policy has reached a level of ideological self-harm that even its harshest critics could scarcely have imagined.

The global economy continues to run overwhelmingly on fossil fuels — and, where available, nuclear power. Transportation, heavy industry, heating, consumer products and electricity generation all depend on them.

The European Commission, in a moment of geopolitical stress, finally acknowledged this truth. When tensions rise in critical chokepoints such as the Strait of Hormuz, Brussels joins international calls to keep energy flows open, implicitly conceding that modern civilization cannot function without reliable hydrocarbon supplies.

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