Heaven forbid the EU energy commissioner is making recommendations for Europeans to try to conserve energy following the crisis created by Trump and Israel attacking Iran.
Top Brussels Official Urges Europeans To Work From Home, Drive Less As Energy Crisis Deepens:
A top EU official is urging Europeans to work from home, drive less, and cut air travel as the bloc braces for a prolonged energy crisis triggered by the Gulf conflict. The European Commission is also pushing member states to accelerate renewables and other energy-security measures as oil and gas disruptions continue. Politico reports: In a speech with echoes of the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, EU energy chief Dan Jorgensen said Europe was facing a "very serious situation" with no clear end in sight. "Even if ... peace is here tomorrow, still we will not go back to normal in the foreseeable future," he said, following an extraordinary meeting of the EU's 27 energy ministers on Tuesday to discuss the crisis. "The more you can do to save oil, especially diesel, especially jet fuel, the better we are off," Jorgensen said, confirming an earlier report by POLITICO that Brussels wanted Europeans to travel less.
He urged member countries to follow the advice of the International Energy Agency, which he said included "work from home where possible, reduce highway speed limits by ten kilometers [an hour], encourage public transport, alternate private car access ... increase car sharing and adopt efficient driving practices." Longer term, he urged EU countries to double down on building more renewables, saying "this must be the time we finally turn the tide and truly become energy independent."
That apparently didn't sit too well with former deputy national security advisor to Trump and Heritage Foundation flack Victoria Coates, who was a guest on Harris Faulkner's show on Fox this Thursday.
Here's Faulkner and Coates attacking the Europeans for not getting on board with cleaning up Trump's war of aggression against Iran, before Coates accused them of just wanting to enact a "radical climate agenda" by urging people to conserve energy amid fuel shortages caused by the Strait of Hormuz being closed.
FAULKNER: I want to start with oil and how jarring it must be for people around the world, nations, friend or foe, to hear the president of the United States say, yeah, you know, we don't really need the Strait of Hormuz the way you do. In fact, we have a lot of oil. We could sell it to you.
COATES: No, it's an absolute strategic reset, Harris. And this changes our approach to energy markets that has been in place since 1980, since President Carter laid out his doctrine that the United States would ensure the free flow of energy out of the Gulf, because we were dependent on that energy. We're not anymore.
And yes, we're part of a global market, but that's not our supply that we have to worry about. That's a supply that China should be worrying about, India needs to worry about, and Europe needs to worry about.
So I think they're on notice that the United States will help. And hopefully the Iranian regime will accept the president's terms and open up the Strait. But if they don't, there's going to be a burden on other parts of the world to resolve this situation.
FAULKNER: Look, we just saw a hit on a British property, and I'm wondering if the Prime Minister, Starmer, who's been wishy washy throughout this whole thing, pretty much, is getting the message of what you just said about the president's plans with regard to the strait.
COATES: I think there's a lot of panic in European capitals today, Harris, primarily in Brussels. And the message they're sending to their citizens is, you need to shelter in place, essentially. Stop driving so much. Stop flying so much. Don't heat your houses. Conserve energy.
FAULKNER: Wow.
COATES: They're essentially imposing the energy restrictions. Exactly. It's in Politico Europe, so I'm not making it up. But this is their attempt to impose their radical climate agenda because of the conflict in Iran, which is ridiculous. And that's what you're going to see Starmer do as well.
The ones with an "agenda" are these two. And just like we saw from Marco Rubio, they didn't mention all of the other products that the United States relies on that are affected by the Strait's closure as well.
Anything to try to spin this debacle for Dear Leader.
