End the global war on energy

Why are the supposed adults in Europe listening to that scowling Swedish brat Greta Thunberg? One little joke from Vice President Vance had them crying like babies last week

The world’s attention is focused on the Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

But there’s another war going on that’s more important. That’s the war on energy.

In a war, the first thing you target is your enemy’s energy supplies.

That’s what the left wingers here in the U.S. were doing until Donald Trump began his second term.

Last week he signaled to the Europeans that, when it comes to energy policy, we will no longer target America’s fossil fuel industries.

The battle was won last week when Vice President J.D. Vance joked to a gathering of world leaders in Munich, “If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg’s scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk,” said Vance.

The Europeans didn’t think it was funny.

But then Europeans have no sense of humor, as evidenced by their acceptance of that scowling brat from Sweden who is trying to hamstring our energy industry.

If Thunberg’s prediction had come true, that Munich meeting never could have happened.

In 2012 she tweeted, “A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.”

If Europeans had taken her seriously and curbed production of natural gas, a good slice of humanity would indeed have died - from cold and from starvation - even though Europe has plenty of natural gas.

The British just made a discovery that could supply their needs for a decade or so. But that would require fracking, so they’re not going to drill for it.

That’s a no-no to these children.

“We intend to ban fracking for good and make Britain a clean energy superpower to protect current and future generations,” a government spokesman was quoted as saying.

How will the Brits manufacture all that clean energy?

That technology doesn’t exist. Until it’s invented, they’ll have to import liquefied natural gas from places like Russia and the U.S.

Good for us.

Meanwhile the Nordic Times reports that people from places like Sweden face astronomical rises in heating costs.

“According to a report by the Nils Holgersson Group, this year’s average price increase for district heating in Sweden is the highest ever and almost double that of last year. In some municipalities, district heating prices have increased by more than 30 percent,” the story stated.

No wonder Greta is scowling.

But she’s got nothing on the conference chairman, Christian Heusgen.

The Times reported that as Heusgen “neared the end of his speech, he couldn’t hold back the tears any longer and started to sob out the words:

“– Let me conclude… this will be difficult…

“The hall was filled with applause of sympathy, with one female conference participant taking the crying Heusgen in her arms.”

No wonder they listened to a child.

They’re all children.

Thunberg was literally a child when she began her war to have the entire world turn her feelings into policy.

Wikipedia reports that. “Thunberg says she first heard about climate change when she was eight years old, and could not understand why so little was being done about it. The situation depressed her, and as a result, at the age of 11, she stopped talking and eating “and lost ten kilograms (22 pounds) in two months.”

Of course she’s depressed; she lives in Sweden. Did you ever watch an Ingmar Bergman movie? These Swedes aren’t happy unless they’re depressed.

But here in the States, we know a joke when we see one.

And the effort by supposed experts to end their own energy supplies is one of the funniest yet.