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Paris is burning, and their answer is to point the finger at America.Over one thousand people died in France last week during a record heatwave. Another three hundred died across the rest of Europe. Bodies piled up. Mortuaries turned families away.And what did Paris Deputy Mayor Audrey Pulvar do? She hopped on Instagram and blamed the United States.She wrote, "As the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, you bear a significant amount of responsibility for global warming." Then she scolded Americans for daring to notice that Paris homes have no air conditioning.Let that sink in. Her citizens are dying in their apartments, and she is lecturing us about our comfort.Here is what she will not say. Germany shut down every one of its nuclear power plants in 2023. France was forced to power down its own reactors last week because Green rules said the river water was too warm for the fish. Only about one in four French homes has air conditioning, and their own political class has spent years treating AC as a climate sin.Europe did this to itself. Brussels decided that ideology mattered more than electricity. Von der Leyen and her Green Deal shuttered the plants, punished the appliances, and left ordinary Europeans to sweat in flats built before the light bulb.And now they blame us because we run our air conditioners.The Founders warned us about exactly this kind of centralized power. Brutus No. 1 said that when authority sits too far from the people it governs, it imposes rules the people never chose and cannot escape. That is Brussels. That is the Green Deal. That is why Paris grandmothers are dying in the dark.America is not the villain here. America is the reference standard. Cheap energy, cool homes, and citizens who are not treated as sacrifices to a climate cult.Blame is easy. Building an electric grid that actually works is hard. Europe should try it.