If the Ukraine war hasn't scared the West straight on energy,...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Coal, too, Epstein notes, is affordable, abundant and easy to extract and transport.
61% : In taking this route, Europe made a holiday-from-history decision to forget the incredible power of oil, gas and coal -- the most reliable and efficient sources of energy the world has ever known -- and ignore the inevitable centrality of energy to geopolitics.
60% : For its part, green energy -- wind, solar and other renewables -- accounts for around 10% of global electricity and even less of total energy.
57% : Moscow has also benefited, though, from Europe's deliberate choice to attempt a great leap forward into a green-energy future, especially in Germany, which decided to turn its back on both nuclear and coal.
46% : Did they not notice that coal was the mainstay of Britain's rise to global power in the 19th century?

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