An option for what is the question. To keep these people in power long enough for their patrons to rearrange their bets and suck out a bit more on the way out?

An option for what is the question. To keep these people in power long enough for their patrons to rearrange their bets and suck out a bit more on the way out? Sure. To hold over until something else can come online? I don't know. Poland has huge infrastructure for coal extraction though by the way. Germany itself has only been down since 2018. Then there's players like Greece (75% o their demand is satisfied by their own coal) who can be trivially outbid. There was Ukraine too, but, you know...