Europe has an energy problem.
The radical eco-left has gained such powerful sway across Europe, that they have cut their nation's off from their most reliable domestic sources of energy.
Germany is abandoning its nuclear power plants, a campaign of hysteria and misinformation is thwarting fracking for natural gas, and the global warming people are doing all they can to bury coal.
The feel-good cover story is laden with pictures of windmills and solar panels, but the hard facts remain that these expensive and inefficient sources of energy are not up to the task of powering a continent.
That leaves much of Europe dependent on Gazprom, Russia's natural gas export company, and pipelines through the Ukraine.
When Vladimir Putin's troops swarmed into Georgia, many dismissed the incursion as an aberration.
When Putin's troops massed along the Ukrainian border and Russian boots marched into Crimea, the world suddenly realized that they were not looking at an aberrant point. This was a trend, a quite disturbing trend.
Larry Bell and Alan Caruba present two different takes on the crisis in the Ukraine at CFACT.org.
Both agree that one of the most potent strategies available for placing Putin in check is developing domestic energy resources that don't depend on Russia.
We'd add that the time has come to move beyond reliance on a hostile and unstable Middle East and a Socialist Venezuela as well.
Free societies need energy to power them.
The radical Greens who would strangle our energy supply are a tyrant's best friends.
For nature and people too,
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