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The German economy would still implode without natural gas as a feed stock and wither goes Germany goes the EU.
by towaway15463 4y ago
The German economy would still implode without natural gas as a feed stock and wither goes Germany goes the EU.
- rcarr 4y agoWould it though if Angela Merkel et al hadn't banned nuclear energy and spent 16 years cosying up to Putin instead of setting up some back up plans?
- towaway15463 4y agoYes unless they started making their own gas out of electricity and air which is still economically unlikely even with nuclear power. The German petrochemical industry is not a small potatoes thing.
- rcarr 4y agoIf they had built nuclear power plants even just to cover domestic use would that not have alleviated some of the pressure they’re now facing on the gas front though? Covering industrial and domestic is clearly harder than just having to cover industrial. Yes France doesn’t have as much heavy industry as Germany but they’re weathering the storm much better and I don’t think we can ignore the fact that a lot of that is to do with the fact they’re pretty much the only Western European country that’s taken nuclear power seriously. I do applaud Germany for the strides they’ve made with green energy but making nuclear illegal before they’d transitioned further along the green energy road is looking like a very bad move with hindsight. Regardless, Russia have been in the Donbass and Crimea since 2014. That European countries and Germany in particular, have decided to increase their reliance on Russian gas since then rather than set up some serious back up plans is really rather complacent.