6
Oct
2021
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European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers: the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy and the need to tackle energy poverty (debate)
Madam President, I'm sorry. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Some time ago, I published an article entitled ‘Current becomes a luxury commodity in Europe’. The title was supposed to be provocative, but it turned out to be prophetic. In Spain and Portugal, the megawatt hour reached 190 euros. On a similar scale, electricity is also more expensive in Italy, and in general throughout the European Union. There is no end to this panic. Countries at the forefront of environmental propaganda, such as the Netherlands, are returning to coal technologies to stabilise prices and ensure the continuity of energy supplies. For the first time in decades, wealthy Western European societies began to fear poverty and frost. This is the price of the Green Deal. It is not a crisis, it is a result, as the Polish writer Stefan Kisielewski would say. Such are the costs of too hasty decarbonisation and faith in renewable energy, which turns out to be simply unreliable. Of course, Brussels can control this chaos. All that is needed is to rationalise and adapt climate policy to social expectations and economic opportunities. Let's do this while there's still time, until it's too late, until people are on the street. Otherwise, European energy will forever become dependent on the whims of weather and Russian roulette. The proposal is one: The West, freed from the trap of Arab oil, fell into the trap of the Russian dictatorship. What a shame!