Posted on 01/02/2022 9:17:04 AM PST by rktman
While EU member states provide financial support to poor households affected by rising energy bills, the European Commission is focusing on long term solutions like energy efficiency and renewables, which have the potential to “eradicate energy poverty” once and for all, an EU official dealing with the issue has said.
Energy poverty is “a pre-existing problem” to the current energy price hike, which is linked to the inability of people to pay their fossil fuel bills, said Adela Tesarova, an official at the Commission’s energy department.
“We want to avoid that decarbonisation makes this problem worse,” she told a EURACTIV event held earlier this month, saying this is why the EU executive proposed creating a social climate fund worth €72.2 billion for the 2025-2035 period.
The ongoing energy price crisis has put energy poverty in the spotlight, with EU governments scrambling to alleviate the burden on the most vulnerable households with short-term measures such as direct income support.
Around 31 million Europeans are living in energy poverty and are unable to keep their homes adequately warm, according to Eurostat figures.
Direct income support schemes, such as France’s energy vouchers, are supported by the European Commission, which put forward a “toolbox” of measures in October to address rising energy prices in the short term.
For the long term, the Commission tabled “structural measures” to boost energy efficiency and renewables, which will reduce Europe’s dependence on fossil fuels, Tesarova said.
“Moving away from fossil fuels is a way to eradicate energy poverty,” the official said, citing EU programmes helping people to insulate their homes and other initiatives to boost renewables.
“Because if people are not dependent on fossil fuels, we will not have energy poverty,” she said.
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Once we get fusion reactors perfected yes. Until such time no.
Why is it that almost all politicians do so many “recreational” drugs?
Right? lol
Dumbest damn thing I’ve read today. Good grief!
And getting energy from the russkies via pipeline that can be shut off at anytime, is a solution to this?
Good, I want to see them do this.
The rest of the world will learn a great lesson.
These people are insane and must be stopped - There is no “fre energy”.
This is all Munchausen by Proxy!
It seems to me that the problem could be more easily solved by the complete eradication of Stupid people in positions of power and influence.
Adults who think like children.
Argument of a child intellectual
Every time they create a new problem they invent a new word to pretend they didn’t create the new problem.
We now have a new malady, “energy poverty.”
Perhaps they can send the impoverished back to where they came from
“… The stoopidness is never ending.…”
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Yep, you can eradicate poverty by making things more expensive and more scarce. Who would have thunk it.
We don't want crop destruction to create famine.
Prog. There is no cure.
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There’s nothing too stupid that the Left will not attempt it.
The beating is going to continue until the morale improves.
If poverty is relative then making the masses equally energy-poor eliminates energy poverty.
Of course the ruling class will still have their fossil fuels, they can’t be expected to go without.
“with EU governments scrambling to alleviate the burden on the most vulnerable households with short-term measures such as direct income support. “
Great. Instead of increasing energy availability, hand out more money to increase inflation. What could go wrong.
EU draft on financing nuclear and gas plants raises ire
BRUSSELS (AP) - Draft European Union plans that would allow nuclear and gas energy to remain part of the bloc’s path to a climate-friendly future came under immediate criticism over the weekend from both environmentalists and some governing political parties in EU member nations.
Talking points courtesy of grrrrrreta?
Europe could eradicate the EU.
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