Green Energy Push Wrecking Economic Havoc Across The world

Keneci Channel

Green energy policies championed by left-wing leaders are wrecking havoc across the world. The utterly insane and zealous push to eliminate the use of fossil fuel is leading to a global energy and economic crisis.

While left-wing leaders in Europe and America push policies targeting fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas over climate change concerns, countries like China and India continue to expand their use of such fuels. Experts point out that this has put the west at an economic disadvantage leading to the current energy crisis.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson on his show recently, discussed the economic fallout of the climate alarmists' push for unreliable green energy sources.

The Fox News host said in part

Europe is descending into poverty. Did you know that? Had someone told you that?

So, the most advanced continent on the planet, the birthplace of Western civilization, our civilization, is getting much poorer very quickly. It's moving backward at high speed. Just a year ago, Europe was a modern place. For example, the overwhelming majority of Europeans heated their homes with natural gas, as modern people do.

In Germany, the continent's richest country, only about 6% of households, most of them rural, heated with cordwood and you'd expect that, given that, again, Germany is a modern industrialized country with central heating and indoor plumbing and all the other trappings of a society that has moved beyond the medieval period. Last year, only about 6% of Germans used wood to heat their homes, but that has changed dramatically. Demand for firewood in Germany has risen so fast that there is none left to buy. You can't get it, so desperate Germans are now cutting their own wood, scouring the forests like their ancestors for sources of heat.

So, the question is: why is it happening? And the answer is extremely simple. There is an energy shortage in Europe. Cheap energy is essential. It is the key to everything that a normal society strives for: prosperity, safety, a longer life expectancy for its citizens. Everything depends on cheap energy, but Europe no longer has it and as a result, things are falling apart very quickly.

Energy costs in Europe are expected to increase by hundreds of percent in coming months. Germany's year ahead price of electricity, that's the benchmark for all of Europe, it's measured in euros per megawatt hour, that price just exceeded €1,000 for the first time in history. For perspective, just a week ago, last Monday, the cost was about €700 per megawatt hour and that was a record. In other words, the price rise is approaching 50% in a single week. In France, electricity went up 25% in one day. That was last Friday. Imagine that happening to you. Here's what Europe looks like tonight.

Green energy cannot replace fossil fuels. Not now, not anytime soon. Fossil fuels remain what they have always been: the key to civilization. That is true now. That has been true since Homo Erectus started the first cooking fire in a cave nearly a million years ago. So-called green energy is not close, is nowhere near replacing gas and oil and coal. It's measurable. We could have known this. Anyone with eighth-grade math skills could have figured out in about 10 minutes that we cannot replace fossil fuels with renewables or green energy and of course, they must have known that. When they told you otherwise, it was just posturing. It was childish and destructive fantasy talk that apparently fooled millions of their citizens and millions of hours.

WATCH the rest of Tucker Carlson's monologue on the fallout of the green energy push by left-wing leaders.