Fat chance: the ministers and senior civil servants all share his prejudices. It's just that nowadays you have to project an image of environmentally concerned and show of a couple of wind farms and maybe a few solar panels to appease the public. That would be the entire point of the so-called Grenelle: a major show-off for the UMP government and greenwashing exercise.

But everybody in Serious circles know these are just a few toys to dangle in front of an ill-advised public, for the Serious People know that wind and solar are Un-serious and will revert us to the ages of candle lighting: only nuclear and gas (and oil) merit Serious consideration.