> I'm not even blaming "foreign influence". It's an analogy. Foreign in this case means "foreign to your ideology", if you will. > We have good data that car

> I'm not even blaming "foreign influence". It's an analogy. Foreign in this case means "foreign to your ideology", if you will. > We have good data that car manufacturers, energy and chemical companies didn't want to risk their profitable fossil-based business models and thus lobbied the according governments. Again, "foreign influence". We're talking about electricity. Car manufacturers and chemical companies don't care whether their electricity comes out of a coal plant or a windmill. They care about price. Production capacity of renewables may be impressive on paper and therefore cheap in theory, but it's not available on demand. That requires (hitherto non-existent) buffering solutions that completely change the economics. So, you did not provide a comprehensive solution that takes these factors into account, therefore you failed. Rather than learn from your mistake and tackle the harder parts of the problem, you blame others. This is how I know I'm dealing with an ideology. > Nowadays you can only buy Chinese solar products while the German solar industry is dead. I don't see how that's relevant. If you can't produce solar panels more efficiently than the Chinese, then you should just buy them from the Chinese if you need them.