The continent is literally on fire due to global warming. Europe does not produce any fossil fuels and needs energy independence. It's because politicians dragged their feet for so long on net zero that we are even in this mess in the first place. Better now than never.

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detritus an hour ago | parent [-]

Europe doesn't produce any fossil fuels?

	▲	alpineman 29 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Effectively. Europe and the UK do, but there isn't much easily accessible left and besides they aren't in the EU. Netherlands has had to close their gas fields. Germany still mines some coal...there are probably a couple of other gas fields etc but the big picture is that Europe is highly dependent on imports.
	▲	frollogaston 6 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Russia and Norway do, but most of that is Russia