Meanwhile, as Democrats plot to ram through a version of AOC’s Green New Deal in the form of a crippling $3.5 trillion spending bill, other countries have begun to discover what it means to be forced by deranged tyrants to rely on green energy:

As energy prices in Europe go through the roof, factories are beginning to shut down and food is disappearing from the shelves. Welcome to green Britain, offering a foretaste of what life will be like under Net Zero conditions – poorer, colder, hungrier – unless Government changes course.

Government will not change course unless forced to. Not even Joe Biden is dim enough to think any of this will improve the weather. The green agenda is about increasing government power, nothing more.

The Times reports that a shortage of carbon dioxide caused by high gas prices may constitute a “black swan event”:

The closure of two fertiliser plants in northern England and others in Europe has left the food and drink industry facing a shortage of carbon dioxide, which is a byproduct of fertiliser manufacturing. The gas is critical to the production and transport of a range of products, from meat to bread, beer and fizzy drinks.

The meat industry estimates that businesses can carry on for less than two weeks before carbon dioxide stocks run out….

Turns out carbon dioxide is not a menace to the human race after all. Plants aren’t the only ones that need it. The CO2 shortage could cause Christmas to be canceled.

Meanwhile,

Natural gas and electricity markets were already surging in Europe when a fresh catalyst emerged: The wind in the stormy North Sea stopped blowing.

The sudden slowdown in wind-driven electricity production off the coast of the U.K. in recent weeks whipsawed through regional energy markets. Gas and coal-fired electricity plants were called in to make up the shortfall from wind. …

The electricity price shock was most acute in the U.K., which has leaned on wind farms to eradicate net carbon emissions by 2050. Prices for carbon credits, which electricity producers need to burn fossil fuels, are at records, too.

Food and energy on one hand, delusional left-wing climate ideology on the other. We are going to have to choose.

On tips from Kevin R., Mr. Freemarket, Dragon’s Lair, and Bluto.