Any fuel price that does not fully cover the externalities of extracting and burning said fuel is artificially low rather than artificially high. Right now, the price of hydrocarbon fuels is artificially low everywhere on Earth. Even in the EU.

> artificially expensive

How is it artificially expensive? Is natural gas an infinite free resource now? Do we ignore the oil/gas subsidies?

Billions of people can't afford the effects of artificially cheap energy. Just make everyone pay a tax to clean up the pollution whatever they're making is causing.

Your comment and submission histories are interesting to read. Have you ever considered that you're wrong, and indeed obnoxiously wrong?

> What's disastrous is that millions of people can't afford artificially expensive energy to heat their homes and commute to work.

Do you think it would be more affordable to relocate some populations and rebuild a few cities after floodings, droughts, famines and wildfires caused by that cheaper fossil energy? 'Artificial' depends on your definition of who is paying, and when.

Coal, oil and nuclear received gigantic subsidies and reseacrh funding over the course of five or more decades. The support given to renewables is laughable in comparison.

Not going to stop you in whatever you're doing, but ironically socialists tend to dislike the EU because it is primarily a common market. The reason most of the EU's leftists don't support a Brexit-style exit is that it's economic and geopolitical suicide unless your country's economy is already fully self-sufficient (i.e. if all imports and exports were shut down the country would still flourish).

Also socialists tend to be against globalization (i.e. creating a unified global market) because it strengthens multi-national corporations, which are harder to reign in than local companies (see Apple, Google and Facebook preferring to pay EU fines rather than sticking to the regulations meant to rein them in).

But you didn't say they support globalization, of course, you said they support globalism, which just incidentally happens to be a right-wing dogwhistle for the Jewish conspiracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalism

But I'm sure that's entirely accidental.

EDIT: Interesting. Not complaining but it's curious to see my comments go from slowly increasing positive scores to max negative. HN voting is certainly following interesting patterns and not at all in line with its own guidelines (obviously).

> They have no one to blame for that but themselves. Voting for various flavors of globalist socialists election after election and no one has the guts to organize a referendum to exit the EU and put an end to that madness.

There was actually a country that did that. You may have heard of them, they are called the United Kingdom. Their exit from the EU has also been known as an absolutely unmitigated disaster, causing them endless amounts of losses for essentially zero benefits.