Bravo to President Trump for scolding the Brits over their masochistic energy policy. (It doesn’t help that King Charles is a climate change nutcase.)

Trump urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to deploy his country’s “great asset” of still abundant North Sea oil to get prices down. The North Sea oil drilling was a key factor in Britain’s turnaround in the early 1980s.

Trump was echoed by Energy Secretary Chris Wright:

“The U.K. example is to me heartbreaking — to see the birthplace of the industrial revolution export almost all of its energy-intensive industry, its steelmaking, its petrochemical making, its aluminum fabrication. It’s been tough to watch as an outsider,” Wright said.

Today the average British household pays about 50% more for electric power and gas than we do, in large part because expensive renewables make up over 50% of the country’s electricity generation with a majority of that being expensive and unreliable wind power.

At the same time, the U.S. has catapulted itself into becoming the world’s preeminent oil and gas producer, and now produces a staggering 32 times more of those fuels than the UK does.  In this chart of the leading natural gas consuming nations, the UK doesn’t even make the top ten:

Britain’s elites have traded the country’s prosperity for self-righteous virtue signaling and are making the country poorer as a result. They should immediately embrace oil and gas production and revive their nuclear power industry, which was once a world leader.