“The EUSSR has too much economic control. Funny how they kept prices low during the Biden regime, but as soon as Trump came back they put the squeeze on the continent...”
Actually I remember their prices zooming up once the Neocon War against Russia started, in 2022, and maybe before then even. Most of it was due to their ‘green’ policies, including Germany blowing up its 12 nuclear plants, France’s policy of letting their 50 or so nuke plants ‘wither on the vine’ (since reversed) with the intent of replacing their reliable energy with totally unreliable energy, the UK shutting down its last coal plant, etc.
All of that pre-dates Trump 2.0 and I suspect they don’t want their new masters from the Middle East and Africa having a functional economy when they take over in a decade or so.
By the way, for people out there who don’t travel the world on a regular basis - when they say ‘cent’, they’re talking “Euro Cent”, which is about 20% higher than our one penny. So “40 cent” in US terms is nearly 50 US Cents per kwh, which is 3 times the average price in most of the US (other than deep blue states). They’re hosed.
Prices went up in general during the Biden usurpation anyhow, who were working with the EUSSR.
I sure don’t recall Biden being a “neocon”, but then again, there is no difference between those and Democratic liberals.