You’re not totally wrong. I still think a little more time would have been necessary, say 6 months. But at that point in time, we should have made sure to cut every major connection, oil/gas/nuclear/steel/wood and to redistribute Russian foreign assets. We could have used the multiple GWp of Chinese solar panels stranded in European ports to quickly reduce dependence on gas in spring/summer/fall. We could have announced major investment in wind/solar/heat pumps.
Instead, we got the half measures you mentioned, assets only frozen, Russian LNG and tanker oil somehow still flowing freely, but with new middlepeople getting a cut and EdF keeping its mortal dependence on a Russian nuclear supply chain. And we got almost no new green investment.
You’re not totally wrong. I still think a little more time would have been necessary, say 6 months. But at that point in time, we should have made sure to cut every major connection, oil/gas/nuclear/steel/wood and to redistribute Russian foreign assets. We could have used the multiple GWp of Chinese solar panels stranded in European ports to quickly reduce dependence on gas in spring/summer/fall. We could have announced major investment in wind/solar/heat pumps.
Instead, we got the half measures you mentioned, assets only frozen, Russian LNG and tanker oil somehow still flowing freely, but with new middlepeople getting a cut and EdF keeping its mortal dependence on a Russian nuclear supply chain. And we got almost no new green investment.