(LifeSiteNews) – The president of the European Commission said citizens should “flatten the curve” of energy demand in light of Europe’s lack of electricity due to implementing extreme green policies as well as being cut off from Russian gas.
In a speech today, Ursula von der Leyen called for “mandatory” energy rationing throughout the entire EU bloc, using terms from the early days of the COVID crisis to get people to accept what in effect are climate lockdowns.
“During peak demand, the expensive gas comes into the market. So what we have to do is flatten the curve to avoid the peak demands, we will propose a mandatory target for reducing electricity use at peak hours and we will work very closely with the member states to achieve this,” von der Leyen said.
“These are tough times and they’re not over soon,” she added, noting that she is convinced “Europeans have the economic strength, the political will, and unity to keep the upper hand.”
Many EU states have for some time now implemented extreme green energy policies championed by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which many say have caused nothing but higher energy costs as well as power shortages.
A part of this “reset” is pushing a radical climate change agenda that promotes unreliable “renewables,” the likes of wind farms and solar energy, which simply cannot keep up with energy demand.
These green policies have resulted in insanely high electric and gas bills for many consumers.
As noted by LifeSiteNews’ Paris correspondent Jeanne Smits in a recent blog, Europe’s “energy situation is Kafkaesque” and self-inflicted.
“Turning eastward, Russia has found eager clients for its gas and petrol in China, Iran, and elsewhere while Europe suffers from the economic sanctions it imposed after Putin invaded Ukraine,” Smits noted.
“Under ‘green’ pressure – and the environmentalists have always leaned to the extreme-left in the same way that pacifists and anti-nuclear activists in the West furthered the interests of the USSR during the Cold War – countries such as Germany have been pushed to depend on unreliable ‘renewables’ such as wind farms and solar energy. As a result, coal plants are reopening. And France, which kept its nuclear plants active, is now obliged to share its energy with its EU partners.”
The Great Reset is a militant plan created by global elites who are part of the WEF that “seeks to ‘push the reset button’ on the global economy” and to also create a New World Order with aspects of the Chinese Social Credit System.
The EU’s von der Leyen also called for capping the price of gas from Russia, as well as mandating that oil and gas companies redistribute profits in a “solidarity contribution.”
After Russia invaded Ukraine, the EU imposed heavy sanctions on the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In return, Putin began to restrict the flow of gas to Europe, which has been heavily reliant on relatively cheap Russian gas.
Putin recently shut the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, as a result of Western sanctions.
Putin has also said that if the EU goes ahead with any price caps, all energy shipments to the EU will stop.
“We will not supply gas, oil, coal, heating oil – we will not supply anything,dwith any form of energy,” said Putin.
Many EU states such as Germany, France, and Italy have already introduced rationing proposals of their own.
Protests have broken out in Germany in recent days calling for the end to sanctions against Russia. However, German Foreign Affairs Minister Annalena Baerbock said the country would continue to support Ukraine “no matter what [the] German voter thinks.”
LifeSiteNews reported in July that the newly built Nord Stream 2 pipeline was stopped from opening, and its certification was suspended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, due to the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.