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Le Pen Calls for Massive Investments in Air Conditioning as France Swelters Under Heat Wave
« on: Sunday, Jun 28, 2026 07:29 am »
Le Pen Calls for Massive Investments in Air Conditioning as France Swelters Under Heat Wave
 
Kurt Zindulka25 Jun 202699
 
French populist leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to put in place a “massive air-conditioning plan” using interest-free loans intended for the “green” transition to mitigate the impact of future heat waves like those the country is currently experiencing.


This week, temperatures throughout Europe soared, causing massive disruptions in nations like France, where the use of air conditioners has long been a cultural taboo due to a mix of environmentalism and superstitions about their impact on health. However, amid the current deadly heat wave, some are being forced to reckon with the fact that AC has become a prerequisite for modernity.


Even Marine Tondelier, the leader of the green-minded Ecologist Party, admitted this week that “there are places where we can no longer do without air conditioning”. In a stunning statement for a green politician, Tondelier argued that the “taboo” about air conditioning should be lifted in France.

Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally party has seized on the issue, arguing that the lack of air conditioning disproportionately affects the working class, who have to live in the heat, miss work when schools close, and watch after their children during the day. Meanwhile, the wealthy largely live and work in air-conditioned environments.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/06/25/le-pen-calls-for-massive-investments-in-air-conditioning-as-france-swelters-under-heat-wave/
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Re: Le Pen Calls for Massive Investments in Air Conditioning as France Swelters Under Heat Wave
« Reply #1 on: Sunday, Jun 28, 2026 07:32 am »
Look how she abandons the future of the world when things get hot!  Who does she think she is to act like that, Greta Thunberg? :whistle:
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Re: Le Pen Calls for Massive Investments in Air Conditioning as France Swelters Under Heat Wave
« Reply #2 on: Sunday, Jun 28, 2026 09:07 am »
Quote from: rangerrebew on Sunday, Jun 28, 2026 07:29 am
Even Marine Tondelier, the leader of the green-minded Ecologist Party, admitted this week that “there are places where we can no longer do without air conditioning”. In a stunning statement for a green politician, Tondelier argued that the “taboo” about air conditioning should be lifted in France.

In other words, Conservatives have been right this whole time.  And the suffering that the people are now enduring was created solely by the Left.
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Re: Le Pen Calls for Massive Investments in Air Conditioning as France Swelters Under Heat Wave
« Reply #3 on: Sunday, Jun 28, 2026 09:30 am »
Most people would be shocked to learn that Paris is roughly the same latitude as the Alberta/Montana border.  However, the country is prone to hot and muggy spells a couple of weeks each summer.  They just tolerate it because HVAC is astronomically priced and most of the year is nasty and dark.
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Re: Le Pen Calls for Massive Investments in Air Conditioning as France Swelters Under Heat Wave
« Reply #4 on: Sunday, Jun 28, 2026 09:44 am »
The current Euro heat wave is cooler that what we experience several times every summer in the Ohio Valley (including this week).
They're so delicate.
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Re: Le Pen Calls for Massive Investments in Air Conditioning as France Swelters Under Heat Wave
« Reply #5 on: Sunday, Jun 28, 2026 12:19 pm »
French populist leader Marine Le Pen has vowed to put in place a “massive air-conditioning plan”

It will gain her and her party a few points in the polls.
But... break the magic 50% mark?
N'y compte pas !
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Re: Le Pen Calls for Massive Investments in Air Conditioning as France Swelters Under Heat Wave
« Reply #6 on: Sunday, Jun 28, 2026 03:27 pm »
Maybe they can pick up some cheap used units from the Brits. :whistle:
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The normal BO coming from a frog eater is bad.  Can you imagine the stench with this heat wave?..Sacrebleu
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The normal BO coming from a frog eater is bad.  Can you imagine the stench with this heat wave?..Sacrebleu
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The normal BO coming from a frog eater is bad.  Can you imagine the stench with this heat wave?..Sacrebleu
Throw women sweating in dark-colored chadors into the mix.
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Re: Le Pen Calls for Massive Investments in Air Conditioning as France Swelters Under Heat Wave
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Do they have enough electricity to support the increased demand from A.C.?

Mass is expected to hit 100oF this week.  I wouldn't be suprised if electric transformers explode, overloaded electric lines ignite, electric lines sag and get taken out by tall vehicles, and we experience brown-outs.

 
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Re: Le Pen Calls for Massive Investments in Air Conditioning as France Swelters Under Heat Wave
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Do they have enough electricity to support the increased demand from A.C.?

Mass is expected to hit 100oF this week.  I wouldn't be suprised if electric transformers explode, overloaded electric lines ignite, electric lines sag and get taken out by tall vehicles, and we experience brown-outs.

 

Third world problems with the Mass Grid?
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Re: Le Pen Calls for Massive Investments in Air Conditioning as France Swelters Under Heat Wave
« Reply #13 on: Today at 08:14 am »
They shutdown nuclear power generation stations ...
They shutdown coal power generation stations ...
They shutdown older LNG power generation stations ...
NIMBY's won't allow new nuclear or fossil fuel generation stations ...
NIMBY's won't allow additional electrciity transmission capacity to be added ...
NIMBY's won't allow additional natural gas transmission capacity to be added ...

Eversource (the ol' Boston Edison) defers maintenance, updates, and improvements until transformers explode and underground wires catch fire.

Mass will have to compete with other Northeast states and eastern Canada for limited electricity generation and transmission capcity.

If a tree falls in Ohio, it could be a repeat of the 2003 Northeast blackout.

Widedspread heatwaves have a way of revealing the persils of long-term, under-investment in energy infrastructure.

Libs believe Government can wave a magic wand to create additional electricity.

It's also during these heatwaves that they allow old power stations to run for a few days, at greater expense to customers, to meet peak demand.
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