France rolls out 'flash fuel loans' to shield small firms from oil price spike

Sure, because France will suddenly not have food if they don't subsidize fossil fuels more. Because somehow it's not one of the richest countries on Earth, which consumes half a billion barrels per year, and if they suddenly consume 5 or 10% less oil the entire country will just collapse, as if they were not the top 1 producer and exporter of fossil-free energy in Europe. It's ridiculous. They are currently dependent on unreliable foreign energy, it's the biggest issue in most european countries, it's why they're so weak, there was the crisis with Russia, they paid billions, now there's the crisis with Iran, they'll again pay billions. Both very easy to anticipate, yet they never learn. Even in the previous years in France they lowered the subsidies for EVs and for energy efficiency, why? They said "we don't have money". Why? Because they paid billions during the russian energy crisis for nothing, since then the french deficit has been the worst in the EU. They just enriched people who profitted from the crisis. Billions for nothing, it's not an investment, they didn't add green energy production with this money, it was pure waste. And they're doing the same mistake here, again, but the great thing is that they don't have any money left so they'll do it less. You can't waste billions and billions and make the wrong choices forever. "Invest more in EVs" > "sorry no money". "Subsidize fossil fuels more during a crisis" > "oh we found money!" These subsidies won't solve problems, it's not an investment to reduce energy consumption, to help people work remotely, no it's giving money so that they can pay more for fossil fuels so that it can enrich fossil fuel producers, who won't produce more because they don't care about Europe; and they know very well that when they're able to create crises, it pays off big time. And it's exactly what Trump did, he produces oil so he doesn't care. And now Europe will pay him more, and subsidize his fossil fuel industry, and his war. And after they'll complain they don't have money and they can't invest to change things. Europe will be able have an impact on the international stage when it has a good energy strategy. It will take 20 years if they start now, and this news shows it still hasn't started yet.