Never mind that Norway has crowned itself one of the most virtue-signaling, morally perfumed, quasi-green utopias in Europe. No country on Earth has showered electric cars with more subsidies than Norway, which conveniently explains why they’ve become the global showroom for battery-powered virtue. And nowhere else are outsiders lectured quite so enthusiastically on climate righteousness, net-zero piety, and the supposed moral superiority of driving around in a government-sponsored rolling sermon on wheels. Norway, in truth, is little more than a northern Saudi Arabia wearing a hemp scarf—financed by colossal piles of petro-cash, derived precisely from the very hydrocarbons they theatrically claim to despise, and then blown on shiny green indulgences so they can feel pure while banking oil wealth like smug environmental televangelists.
The war in Ukraine has made them indispensable to Europe’s energy architecture, which only adds to the self-congratulatory glow. They’ll probably keep floating on that warm bath of moral satisfaction for a while. But no party lasts forever, not even the ones that claim to be saving the planet. The public’s appetite for fairy dust and unicorn elixir is bottomless, yet even Norway’s oil, gas, and fish are finite. And if there is one thing that truly is limitless, it’s politicians’ willingness to throw everything—including the kitchen sink, the plumbing, and probably the house itself—if it buys them another election cycle. Norway isn’t a miracle. It’s an oil-funded fantasy, dressed as a sermon, politely pretending gravity doesn’t exist.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/14/norway-avoids-green-energy-quicksand/