Dhe federal government’s somersaults, with which it wants to escape from impending gas shortages and rising energy prices, are forcing people to do more and more contortions. While gas is still being touted as a substitute for coal in the coalition agreement, coal must now replace the gas – not hard coal, but primarily the “climate killer” lignite.
At the same time, the expansion of renewable energies and grids would have to explode in order to phase out coal as quickly as planned. Not enough that apocalyptically charged climate oaths are casually broken. Nor is there any prospect of galloping inflation being impressed by somersaults.
Germany brought the crisis into its own hands
The cold shower of energy policy follows the mistakes of Russia policy, but has its special German touch. Germany is heating up with a crisis that it created itself, not Russia. A wrong exit policy led to an illusory expansion policy.
Robert Habeck and Olaf Scholz will still have to go to great lengths to explain why the federal government failed to ensure gas storage in good time and also to extend the operating lives of three nuclear power plants.
Spahn, Söder and Lindner are leading the way
The nuclear power debate has only just really begun. CDU, CSU and FDP have sporadically teased. Jens Spahn, Markus Söder and Christian Lindner have now rekindled the discussion. So far, however, they and their parties have not been able to explain how Germany can achieve what other countries can achieve.
At least one argument from “experts” has proven to be wrong: that natural gas hardly plays a role in electricity generation, so nuclear power is of no use. Will more embarrassing excuses now follow – “too late, too expensive, too complex”?
Until recently, wasn’t the climate worth a completely different effort to us? A pause in the nuclear phase-out could take the pressure off the expansion of wind and solar power? If that’s the main concern, then in December there will be no cold showers to fight Putin, but so that the Greens can have warm showers.
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