The problem for Europe is that blaming another country is not going to solve their diesel problem.
So you have a choice:
1. Blame America
2.
a) Take responsibility for not exploiting Europe's own existing gas and oil resource sufficiently. Increase exploitation of natural resources within the EU to reduce reliance on external resources.
b) Take responsibility for shutting down 1/3 of Europe's diesel refining capacity, and take steps to restore that refining capacity.
c) Take responsibility for losing access to oil and gas from Russia, and take steps to restore access.
d) Take responsibility for backing Israel and the US and start cutting independent deals with Iran and Yemen to restore more access Persian gulf resources.
The advantage of 2 is that you can still blame America if you want, as a treat. But you will also be taking steps to free yourself from America.
A resentful slave is still a slave, and right now Europe is America's slave, dependent on the US for energy, food, and weapons. Nursing resentments about America is nothing more than psychological venting.
If Europe did not shut down domestic energy production and oil and gas extraction in order to buy oil and gas from Russia then oil and gas would be a lot cheaper today.
Blaming the Americans for what we did to ourselves is insane and rooted in deep ignorance of what actually happened in Europe in the past two decades.
But yet again this just shows how totally dependent we in Europe are on Americans for everything. Pathetic.
It's good to compare Europe's energy policy with China, since both are nations that are relatively resource poor, although Europe has far more energy resources than China.
Europe has a faith based energy policy, sort of the opposite of "if you build it, they will come". With respect to fossil fuels, Europe has adopted the point of view that "if we destroy it, we won't need it".
Now contrast with China. China is expanding use of coal(1), they have signed long term contracts with Iran and Russia for oil and natural gas, they are building more pipelines(2), they are increasing their own oil exploration to further exploit any fossil fuel resources they have domestically (3), and they are expanding domestic refining capacity (4).
Plus, they have accumulated a massive 1.5 billion barrel strategic reserve of oil. All while also expanding investments in nuclear and renewables. It's not like if you build a refinery, then that prevents you from building a nuclear power plant also. You can do both! You can make energy cheap and abundant.
That is why China is awash in low cost energy to fuel domestic industry (5) while Europe is energy starved. One is led by strategic thinking rooted in reality while the other is led by a policy of wishful thinking and then scolding when things go sideways.
