Well, thd French may have been smarter than the Germans (not really) But then the Russians were smarter than the French. (Im reading in European press French are mostly out of gasolins). Not good.
Oh yea those Russkies are real schmart. Plenty of gasoline for their grown adult men to flee the country and if only they could get some of that fuel to their military tanks before their crews abandon them.
Why do you think that using less energy is any kind of a solution. Many of the young generation seem to think thatvway. But no history supports that. In all examples of what we have now (expanding world population, and a desire of those people to have as best a standard as possible, History proves energy sources are only added to. In other words, when wood burning people found coal, the added that, but never got rid of coal. We still.burn coal. On the other hand, the political leader of the State of California is banishing gasoline cars, without even knowing if EVs are a suitable Replacement. For those of you who know very little about History (most of ET), there was a very popular EV 100+ years ago. It was called a Baker. They went bankrupt.
China plans by 2030 on generating, from renewable sources, the equivalent energy we consume currently in a year. And they are fast along on that track. Besides being a one party Communist ruled country, they also don't have to deal with ignorants stuck in the last century getting in their way.
In his latest video, Larry Williams reports an assessment by Luis Thomas McFadden ( was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania) and these are the (fierce and ruthless) judgments and what Louis Thomas McFadden thought about the FED: https://www.azquotes.com/author/33283-Louis_Thomas_McFadden