The cost of green energy policy for Europe is enormous. The European leadership’s mandate to decarbonize by 2030 is leading to the closure of European industries because it automatically reduces their competitiveness, has caused a huge wave of inflation and has installed a precision that is painfully affecting all European households.
Ursula von der Leyen’s speech on EU energy policy a week ago reveals on the one hand the distance of European leadership from the interests and problems of European citizens and on the other hand its inability to shape a realistic policy for sustainable development in Europe.
Energy policy is currently the cause of the EU’s major problems, inflation, the closure of European industries, excessively high government spending and ultimately the decline in the competitiveness of European economies.
Von der Leyen admits that energy costs are extremely high, but she wrongly identifies the EU’s dependence on Russian gas as the cause of the accuracy and says that we need to get rid of “dirty” Russian fuel. She hides the fact that the Russian gas that has been supplying Central European industries for decades has always been much cheaper than any other type of fuel imported by the EU. She characterizes Russian fuel as dirty, but at the moment the EU is importing its own more expensive fuel from the US and the Arabs – that is not considered “dirty”. Therefore, the dirtiness of Russian gas is obviously a political characterization. The narrative that the very high energy prices in the EU are due to cheap Russian gas is a joke, but it is repeated in all her announcements, it is propaganda.
The President of the Commission then claims that prices will fall if we produce our own (European) clean green energy and proposes more investments in Renewable Energy Sources. She insists on this green energy policy that she has been following in recent years, hiding the fact that Europe is completely dependent on China for the supply of photovoltaic units and batteries for storing electricity and that today the EU’s dependence on China and on wind turbines is rapidly increasing. So when he talks about domestically produced green energy in the EU, he tries to hide the fact that all these units are manufactured in China and purchased by Europe at great expense. This is another reason for the high energy prices in Europe.
The cost of green energy policy for Europe is enormous. The European leadership’s mandate for decarbonization by 2030 is leading to the closure of European industries because it automatically reduces their competitiveness, has caused a huge wave of inflation and has established the precision that is painfully affecting all European households. And all this is happening while there is still no technological possibility to store the electricity produced by Renewable Energy Sources in batteries, with the result that all these very expensive investments cannot provide energy sufficiency in Europe.
The most paradoxical thing about von der Leyen’s thinking is that while she states that “we need cheap energy now”, all the solutions she proposes and ultimately imposes on Europe will make energy more expensive “now” and if there is any benefit, it will appear several decades from now.
Europe’s energy policy prioritizes environmental protection, a goal that all European citizens undoubtedly adopt, but it hides from them the enormous cost that they will pay immediately to achieve this goal. It also hides the fact that because the EU still does not have the means to store (batteries) and distribute this green energy it produces, it is lost and we continue to have an energy deficit that we cover with natural gas imports from the US and the Arabs, at prices much higher than those of “dirty” Russian gas.
Is there a way to achieve Europe’s environmental goal without burdening European budgets to such an extent, without closing European factories, without eroding Europeans’ disposable income through inflation and precision? Yes, there is.
Firstly, to move towards green energy and the decarbonisation of the EU at a slower pace so that the exorbitant costs are spread over a longer period of time and give industries and citizens time to adapt, while at the same time creating the storage and distribution infrastructure so that energy is not wasted and, secondly, for the EU to consider very seriously the option of nuclear energy, which is certainly the cleanest and cheapest form of energy.
Nuclear energy, which will ultimately be the energy that will power everything in the very near future, will completely devalue all other ways of producing green energy, namely photovoltaics and wind turbines, as well as all the very expensive investments that are being made now. Nuclear power technology is already advancing by leaps and bounds, and small nuclear reactors (SMRs) are being produced in 18 countries, all outside the EU, with 80 different technological designs.
The EU recognises all the advantages of using these nuclear units, but it is not adapting its energy policy to this technology. It is not banning it, but it is not investing in it as it should, which it will inevitably do very soon, after having first economically destroyed its industries and the budgets of the countries, as well as European households. The uncertainty that energy policy is causing throughout Europe is a major threat to the political stability of Europe.
Unfortunately, the Commission’s wrong choices do not only concern energy policy, but also extend to other central European policies, such as agricultural policy, trade policy, capital markets policy, etc. These policies do not take into account the needs of the economies of European countries, nor the needs and capabilities of European citizens, and thus we are leading, on the one hand, to an economically and politically weak European Union and, on the other hand, to a strengthening of the anti-systemic climate and extreme political parties in all European countries.
In summary
We must say that, because the policies of the Commission and Ursula Von der Leyen come from the will of Germany, we must say the following:
- All dependence on Russia (and on any other foreign country) for such an important issue as energy must be cut. This strikes at the heart of Germany’s development, since its entire post-war reconstruction was based on: America’s defense protection (which is why their army is exemplary) and the humiliatingly expensive energy that Russia sold it.
- Germany and Europe (with the exception of a few countries) do not have energy resources from the earth, because this is how it results from its geology.
- In Europe (with the exception of a few countries) there is no seismic risk. So there is no risk from such a cause, as far as nuclear facilities are concerned.
- According to official data, Europe participates in the “production of greenhouse gases” only by 6% on a global scale. Therefore, all the strategies determined by the Commission (at the suggestion of Germany) are wrong or even suspicious. Let’s not forget that the “unlucky” Chancellor Merkel, under the pretext of the accident in Japan, closed all nuclear plants in Germany and then we learned that this was a very easy decision, since she was buying Russian gas at a humiliating price (which no one knows yet) and of course she had her predecessor as “boss” at GASPROM.
All of this, however, apart from having this incredibly derogatory basis for other Europeans, is the result of an elaborately set up conspiracy, with swindlers from “environmental” organizations, parties (“green”, red and pink) and long ago masterfully prepared business interests. All of them took care of their own interests and are taking care of them, but at the expense of Europeans, who have no reason to be destroyed due to the responsibilities of China (30%), India (8%) and America (11%) which are the main polluters of the environment (corresponding percentages of participation in greenhouse gases). So it would be good if Mrs. Von der Leyen, among “other gentlemen”, also took from the office of the EU investigator and prosecutor respectively.
