France to ban oil, gas output on home soil in symbolic step

Associated Press ^ | Sep 6, 2017 10:13 AM EDT | Sylvie Corbet

[wjcsux]

I don’t recall anyone accusing the French of being smart.

[JustTheTruth]

France continues its long term slide into fail-and-stupid mode, extending at least as far back as their persecution and exile of the Protestant Huguenots ...

[Rembrandt]

The entire country should vote to dig up and dump Paris into the Atlantic - France would become a much more sane and welcoming place, not for illegals, but for legal visitors who bring $$.

[prophetic]

Thats right you stupid frogs, shoot yourself in the foot to please your politically correct masters & puppets.

It will come back to bite you soon.

[dila813]

Surrender you monkeys

[catnipman]

“I guess they’re going to give up plastics and petrochemicals, too?”

indeed. including lubricants, medicines, tires, and insulated wiring and electronics. oh yeah, and cement and steel and any product manufactured with electrically drive machinery. and fertilizer.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Political Correctness is stupid. Next they will stop building cars, or airplanes. Lets make France like some forth world nation. France is the new Chad. SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU VOTED AGAINST Le Pen.

[The Great RJ]

The French get a large portion of their electricity from nuclear plants. Will Macron close them down and litter the countryside with windmills and solar farms?

[Ben Ficklin]

General Electric's offshore wind turbine manufacturing plant is in France. None are made in the US.

GE has the most onshore wind turbines installed in the US, but the majority are made foreign manufacturers.

[NorthMountain]

French President Emmanuel Macron promised to stick a pipe up his tailpipe, and single-handedly provide all of France's methane gas needs. He then asked directions to the nearest Cloche du Taco ...