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On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) stated that energy bills in New Jersey have skyrocketed because “we haven’t taken an all of the above approach, so we haven’t kept up with enough energy.” And Democrats

Warm hubs have sprouted across Britain by the thousands this winter as soaring food and energy prices drive millions to turn down the thermostat or skimp on hot meals.

Shortages of fruits and vegetables in UK supermarkets could last for months amid high energy prices, a leading farmers’ organisation said.

British Gas employed debt collecting contractors who broke into the homes of vulnerable people to install prepayment meters.

The Olaf Scholz government has mishandled “everything” during the energy crisis, resulting in economic calamity, a German MEP told Breitbart.

Antifa activists brawled with police on Saturday during an attempt to disrupt a protest against the sanctions war with Russia.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) stated that the Biden administration’s plan to spend billions of dollars to help people afford increased heating bills over the winter that Biden’s energy policies caused will exacerbate

Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced a freeze on energy bills, an end to the ban on fracking for shale gas, and new licences to drill oil in the North Sea.

Incoming Prime Minister Liz Truss could end up taking out a loan of around £90 billion (~$104 billion) to freeze household energy bills, reports are now claiming.

Boris Johnson delivered May’s half-Brexit, then focused on net-zero climate policies while crime, immigration, and the cost of living went out of control. Does he even have a legacy to call his own?

The current Slovak government has been donating arms to the Ukrainian armed forces while opening its border to refugees fleeing the war with Russia.

Ukraine’s First Lady’s message to Britons facing crippling energy bill hikes and a cost of living crisis is that while they might be “counting pennies”, her county is counting casualties.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, the runaway favourite to succeed Boris Johnson as Conservative (Tory) Party leader and Prime Minister next week, has promised “immediate help” with soaring energy bills – but refuses to outline specific policies.

(AFP) – European natural gas prices climbed Thursday towards a record peak on heightened fears over Russian supplies, while equities rose on the eve of a key speech from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

UK residents will see an 80 per cent increase in their annual household energy bills, the country’s energy regulator announced Friday, following a record 54 per cent spike in April. That will bring costs for the average customer from 1,971 pounds ($2,332) a year to 3,549 pounds.

At least one kindergarten in the UK has told children to wear more clothes to keep warm, as the business itself cannot afford to keep the heating on constantly.

The right-populist Reform Party, formerly the Brexit Party, wants “wartime” measures to stabilise the energy crisis, calling on the government to “take control of UK energy production pricing” in order to bring down prices for consumers.

As officials in the country express their fears about future gas riots this winter, the German government has announced a host of new energy rationing rules that will come into effect from next Thursday.

Over half of households in Germany will be left living paycheck to paycheck or worse as a result of the country’s gas crisis, the head of a savings bank has warned.

Swedish electricity prices have increased 400 per cent since last year as costs for other goods such as food and alcoholic beverages continue to rise as well.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – On a day of give and take, Western nations made more pledges to send arms to Ukraine while the European Union’s full ban on Russian coal imports kicked in Thursday, adding to the sanctions against Moscow that intelligence claims are hurting its defence exports.

A majority of Britons fear the energy and cost of living crisis will end in people unable to heat their homes in winter dying and riots on the streets.

(AFP) – Russian energy giant Gazprom suspended gas supplies to Latvia on Saturday following tensions between Moscow and the West over the conflict in Ukraine and sweeping European and U.S. sanctions against Russia.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has introduced a new plan to help ease the ongoing energy crisis for the upcoming winter, including subsidies for home heating and a bailout of a major gas supplier.

(AFP) – The European Union will discuss tightening sanctions against Russia on Monday, as Moscow is accused of using the continent’s largest nuclear power plant to store weapons and launch missiles on the surrounding regions of southern Ukraine.

BERLIN (AP) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany’s decision to reactivate coal and oil-fired power plants to relieve energy shortages because of the war in Ukraine is only temporary and his government remains committed to doing “everything” to combat the climate crisis.

A potential cutting-off of Russian gas would lead to recession and “chaotic conditions”, various German officials are now warning.

The goal of Boris Johnson to reduce carbon emissions to “net zero” by 2050 will result in energy rationing, Lord David Frost has warned.

BERLIN (AP) – Fearing Russia might cut off natural gas supplies, the head of Germany’s regulatory agency for energy called on residents Saturday to save energy and to prepare for winter, when use increases.

BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union leaders will gather Monday in a new show of solidarity with Ukraine but divisions over whether to target Russian oil in a new series of sanctions are exposing the limits of how far the bloc can go to help the war-torn country.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will impose a temporary windfall tax on banks and multinationals which he says are profiting from the Ukraine war, to protect Hungarians from energy bill increases and enhance the military.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has lashed out against “prejudice” against his leftist green agenda among members of his own Conservative Party, and shot down proposals to lift of taxes on energy bills.

Far-left green activists have blockaded key oil terminals and depots in Britain the same day the energy price cap is being hiked by 54 per cent.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) – High energy costs are stoking unrest in parts of Europe, with Spain deploying more than 23,000 police officers amid a truckers’ strike Friday and farmers in France and Greece snarling traffic with their protests.

Boris Johnson has conceded to the European Union and dropped his post-Brexit regulation cutting plan in favour of a ‘Net Zero’ agenda.