We will monitor the situation, publish the evolution of our electricity and gas consumption every week to know if we have made the necessary energy savings. We will practice the whole range of energy savings, whether it’s heating, lighting or digital, pull all the levers. Thanks to you, the sobriety plan presented today gives us a credible roadmap to reach our target. This is how we will have maximum reductions in consumption, without penalizing our economy.īased on these principles, we have set ourselves a goal: to reduce our energy consumption by 10% over the next two years, relying on collective responsibility and not on coercion. Sobriety must come from field expertise and adapted to each sector to be well accepted and implemented. Professionals in each sector are best able to identify sources of energy savings. It is general mobilization that will yield results. And with it, communities, companies and citizens must act together, each according to their abilities. Gestures, which reduce our bills and climate footprint. These can be gestures that on a large scale, have a considerable impact. It means avoiding unnecessary consumption and not all consuming at the same time. But with the war, with the urgency of the energy transition, then the appeal of the President of the Republic, sobriety imposed itself as a necessity.Įnergy sobriety does not mean producing less and opting for reduction. Until recently, few of us were familiar with this concept. We plan to increase our gas stocks by diversifying our supplies – and by increasing the capacities of our LNG terminals. Take action and give us the means to get through this winter in the best conditions.Īdded to this tension on gas is the shutdown for maintenance of a large part of our nuclear fleet, which limits our electricity production.īut thanks to European solidarity and sobriety, we can spend the coming months avoiding power cuts. To listen to them would be to turn your back on a member of the European family and deny our values. Faced with this, some are proposing to submit to Russia, accept its terms and abandon Ukraine. Russia has chosen to blackmail its gas, provoking, in Europe, the risk of a shortage for this winter and a surge in energy prices. The strategic upheavals are superimposed by an energy crisis. Seven months ago, by brutally attacking Ukraine, Russia changed the world order. *** French energy sobriety announcement by Mrs Élisabeth Borne, French Prime Minister, on the goal of reducing energy consumption by 10% in two years on October 6, 2022. Women in ecology Podcasts: WGBH, Jore, Planet: Critical, Crazy Town, Collapse Chronicles, Derrick Jensen, Practical Prepping, Kunstler 253 & 278, Peak Prosperity, Index of best energyskeptic posts A good one for Richard Heinberg if he writes a sequel to “ The Party’s Over”.Īlice Friedemann Author of Life After Fossil Fuels: A Reality Check on Alternative Energy When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation ”, Barriers to Making Algal Biofuels, & “ Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan Chips and Crackers ”. Democrats are more likely to give a similar speech, very reluctantly, since Jimmy Carter wasn’t re-elected partly due to a similar one, known as his “malaise” speech ( here).Īfter the speech I summarize the 50 pages of the French energy sobriety plan. If that sounds extreme, please read some of the books here. Or blame Democrats and start a civil war. Though if fascist republicans are in power, they are more likely to “ration” by price, blame the Middle east, and start a war. politician delivering this speech, though it will have to happen when fracked oil declines at 80% a year within 5-10 years. The energy crisis is coming to all nations, and we should all be implementing their action plan (and family planning, birth control, abortion, limited immigration). Below is the announcement of the French Energy Sobriety Plan by Prime Minister Borne.
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