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The Iranian regime's renewed posturing against tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the explosive electricity requirements of AI training clusters have together demolished the claim that hydrocarbons are being phased out of the modern economy.
Technocratic managers in Brussels and Washington continue to impose renewable mandates and carbon taxes that punish domestic production while leaving critical supply lines vulnerable to the same hostile powers that control chokepoints in the Persian Gulf.
These actors function as the Managerial Priesthood, substituting ideological ritual for the concrete requirements of industrial civilization and household prosperity.
Energy abundance has always rested on the mastery of real resources rather than declarations of transition, a truth confirmed when the coal-driven fleets of Protestant England broke Spanish and French power and secured the seas for expanding Christian commerce after the Reformation settlements.
Scripture and natural law alike affirm that a people must steward the material gifts of creation without surrendering control to foreign potentates or abstract global covenants.
The ordered household economy of historic Christendom measured strength by the capacity to produce and defend its own fuel, not by the volume of imported electrons or the number of virtue-signaling targets met.
When nations allow their grids and factories to depend on intermittent sources while rivals stockpile hydrocarbons, they hand the Dispossessor class the lever of famine and blackout.
The faithful remnant must therefore reject every carbon-reduction compact that weakens domestic drilling, refining, and generation and must instead restore the sovereign right to extract and deploy the fuels that actually sustain life and liberty.
Only then can households, parishes, and nations again stand on firm material ground rather than the shifting sands of managerial illusion.
