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You’re forgetting the cornerstone of their idiotic energy policy which recently came crashing down after their benefactor started a large scale invasion

croes 2y ago
I doubt it was idiotic but simple corruption. The coal power plants are the reason for high prices and huge profits for the energy companies. The „botched“ exit from the exit from the nuclear exit brought them additional billions in compensation. People like Söder, who now want nuclear energy back, threatened to resign if the shutdown is delayed. Of course, they don't want nuclear waste anywhere near them, nor do they want wind turbines or power lines. And they were in power for 16 years. They then left the problems to their successors, who are now being blamed for it. It's at least partly true of the SPD
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago
  > People like Söder, who now want nuclear energy back, threatened to resign if the shutdown is delayed. Hardly anybody would have considered Söder's resignment to be a threat. :-D Many Germans rather would have been happy if he had resigned.
  - mpweiher 2y ago
    Söder is a silly populist. Take him seriously at your own risk. :-D
- mpweiher 2y ago
  > I doubt it was idiotic but simple corruption. Why not both? Certainly Schröder, or Gazprom-Gerd as I call him, got his. For the Greens it's more idiotic ideology.
  - croes 2y ago
    The debt brake fetish of FDP is much more of a ideology than the plans of the Green Party. Especially Habeck is more driven by necessity, Baerbock not so much.
    - mpweiher 2y ago
      The FDP has ~5%. The Schuldenbremse was added to the constitution in 2009, which requires a 2/3 majority in the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, and so had to be passed with broad agreement from both the ruling parties and the opposition.
      - mpweiher 2y ago
        Oh, and the EEG fee (guaranteed price for producers of renewable electricity regardless of demand) that is now funded through the federal budget exploded to > €20 billion. Which is pretty much the amount that caused the government to collapse in the budget row.

croes 2y ago

I doubt it was idiotic but simple corruption. The coal power plants are the reason for high prices and huge profits for the energy companies. The „botched“ exit from the exit from the nuclear exit brought them additional billions in compensation. People like Söder, who now want nuclear energy back, threatened to resign if the shutdown is delayed. Of course, they don't want nuclear waste anywhere near them, nor do they want wind turbines or power lines. And they were in power for 16 years. They then left the problems to their successors, who are now being blamed for it. It's at least partly true of the SPD

aleph_minus_one 2y ago
> People like Söder, who now want nuclear energy back, threatened to resign if the shutdown is delayed. Hardly anybody would have considered Söder's resignment to be a threat. :-D Many Germans rather would have been happy if he had resigned.
- mpweiher 2y ago
  Söder is a silly populist. Take him seriously at your own risk. :-D
mpweiher 2y ago
> I doubt it was idiotic but simple corruption. Why not both? Certainly Schröder, or Gazprom-Gerd as I call him, got his. For the Greens it's more idiotic ideology.
- croes 2y ago
  The debt brake fetish of FDP is much more of a ideology than the plans of the Green Party. Especially Habeck is more driven by necessity, Baerbock not so much.
  - mpweiher 2y ago
    The FDP has ~5%. The Schuldenbremse was added to the constitution in 2009, which requires a 2/3 majority in the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, and so had to be passed with broad agreement from both the ruling parties and the opposition.
    - mpweiher 2y ago
      Oh, and the EEG fee (guaranteed price for producers of renewable electricity regardless of demand) that is now funded through the federal budget exploded to > €20 billion. Which is pretty much the amount that caused the government to collapse in the budget row.