“France has loads of frackable resources that may allow them to reduce their petroleum importing to something near zero,”
And the leftist enviros won’t let them get anywhere near it.
Are you kidding? The French don’t give a crap about enviro-weenies. They STILL haven’t signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and (even though it was a while ago) are still one of the only nations in the world who performs nuke tests above ground.
I think they’ll look at the enviro-weenies, tell them “F*** off” (in French, of course) and shoot anyone who tried to stop them.