The EU Commission Has Drafted a Plan to Solve The Energy Crisis - by Cutting Consumption

There is no limit to EU stupidity. Instead of lifting sanctions on Russian gas, the only source able to replace the 20% missing from the Gulf, the European Commission has drafted a list of proposals to cut consumption, both for producers and for households. The proposals, one more ridiculous than the other, will be officially presented on April 22 and include: homework one day a week (presumably to save gasoline for commuting), reducing heating in public and private buildings, alternatives to flights for travelling, as well as incentives to buy solar panels. Those measures show that the Brussels bureaucracy is totally detached from reality. So is Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, who rejected warnings from ENI CEO Claudio Descalzi, that only Russia can replace the missing supply. “I understand Descalzi,” Meloni said in response to a journalist’s question at the wein exposition “Vinitaly.” “but we must not forget that the economic pressure we have exerted on in these years is ultimately the most effective weapon we have to build peace. Therefore, we must be very careful about how we proceed from this perspective.”