The US wants central and eastern European countries to join its path of “energy freedom” instead of following the wider region’s transition to a net zero economy, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in Warsaw.
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“Central Europe faces a time for choosing,” Wright told conference participants. “We warmly welcome you to join us on Team Energy Freedom and Prosperity for Citizens.”
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“In fact, the clarion conclusion from economic studies of climate change is that net zero 2050 is absolutely the wrong goal,” he said. “Not only is it unachievable, but the blind pursuit of it will cause, is causing far more human damage than climate change itself.”
President Trump has repeatedly called on Europe to buy more American energy products if the bloc wants to avoid tariffs.
Extra context:
Climate Crisis Deniers Explain Why They Like U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright - DeSmog
Even their own companies are going fossil free.
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/04/ford-develops-new-lmr-battery-for-future-evs/
Let’s just ignore these old-fashioned fossil people
Ah, so Russia wants to create rifts between Eastern and Western Europe, got it!
Ah, so Russia wants
to create rifts betweenEasternand WesternEurope, got it!
I hope the EU responds strongly and with a punishment for trying to meddle inside of EU’s Affairs. (The Heritage Foundation - the assholes behind Project 2025 - want to split up the European Union)
Maybe they should review American financed Organisations in Europe, and put them under stricter rules.
Or they should negotiate with California and other blue states for a trade deal like they wanted, to undermine the legitimacy of the Trump Administration and inciting the fire thereOr they should negotiate with California and other blue states for a trade deal like they wanted, to undermine the legitimacy of the Trump Administration and inciting the fire there
That’s an amazing idea. Geopolitically the EU benefits from a divided US anyway so it’s not like they have a reason to worry about maintaining the status quo.
Ignoring the self serving bullshit of the US.This seems so nuts, even all the capitalistic incentives point to renewables plus batteries for the future. Besides who in Eastern Europe wants to change from one energy dictator to the next. I can’t see this being a succes in the long run.
It’s just some capitalists fighting other capitalists. The renewable ones are still the weaker though.
This is not wrong, but only in the sense of everything can be made money off. That’s just capitalism.
But apart from that, renewables are better for people, for the environment and for power distribution (no pun intended) because people can have solar energy themselves making energy more decentralized.
So what if somebody does get rich on solar and wind? Its important to not become too dependent on one Capitalist supplying some central piece of the non-fossil tech stack, for sure, but I think your simplification is not doing the whole topic justice and equating two very different things.
It’s like saying, plant based meat is bad because some capitalist is getting rich. Okay, rather keep eating meat, more than before, just to spite the evil startups producing veggie sausages!
Oil and Gas Industry says don’t worry about 50 Celsius in summer, we have a free ice cream, it’s a scheme.
Doesn’t the US’s geography rule it out as an efficient source of ‘energy products’ for europe?
They just want to sow dissent in the EU
So the cyber attack that caused the Spanish outage came from the US? They liked it when they were asked to ship some lgp to Europe ?
There’s zero evidence the Spanish power outage was caused by a cyber attack, that’s just fear mongering.
I know, and everyone is now acting like they were the hacker/cracker of the year saying “it was me, it was me!” . I wish it were a cyber attack actually, cause it’s not nice that it can happen to anyone. For sure it was not a cut cable accident, so it was a big mistake . I was thinking also of a possible power surge coming from solar plants due to the sudden summertime we’re experiencing
Ami go home.
Citroen mon’Ami?
Prefer the DS myself
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