Europe's Energy Suicide: The EU Admits the World Runs on Fossil Fuels — While Deliberately Destroying Its Own
by Drieu Godefridi
April 24, 2026 at 5:00 am
Truth Social
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[W]ithin Europe itself... institutions pursue the systematic dismantling 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 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 worse off, worst off, it's exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that." — Milton Friedman, economist, 1979.
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, independent public is harder to control. Politically, if you are poor and dependent, there is the possibility that you will keep reelecting your incompetent leaders in the hope that they will rescue you. It is in their interest 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. Britain's North Sea oil and gas resources alone are a treasure trove waiting to happen. Until European 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.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22468/europe-energy-suicide
