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It's ironic that this is what the carbon industry used to preach back when solar and wind were very expensive and people believed it. Now, the carbon and nucle
by pydry 2y ago
It's ironic that this is what the carbon industry used to preach back when solar and wind were very expensive and people believed it.
Now, the carbon and nuclear industry preaches the opposite - that the market absolutely cannot handle this "problem" and we need the government to give them money instead.
It was a lie both times, and it was widely believed both times.
- belorn 2y agoDuring the 2022 energy crisis, it was the citizens of practically every country in EU that declared in unions that the market had failed and that government had to step it to fix it. Multiple elections around that time was defined by political discussion around who was willing to pay more of citizens energy bills and save companies that would have gone bankrupt. Estimated €200 billions in a single year went towards that single purpose of fixing what the market failed to do. It was demonstrated beyond doubt that if governments let the market forces deal with instability in energy prices, then the citizens will vote to kick those politicians out and replace them with someone else.