Aho Old Guy wrote:
More typical Rightie cranial rectal occlusion, denial and dumbassery. Please keep lying to yourselves with your fact-challenged false narratives, ignorance and analytical dysfunction. It's Comedy Gold, because deep-thinkers you ain't.
Per capita fossil-fuel CO2 emission rates in Germany have declined over 20% since 1990, and are half that of the United States. CO2 emissions by GDP in Germany are 40% less than those in Trump-Landia, and 'renewable' share of gross final energy consumption in Germany is 50% higher. See a trend, there, Righties?
Germany is vying with Japan and China to establish itself as the preeminent global leader in green energy jobs, technology, development and utilization. Trumpies want to declare War on CAFE standards and bring back King Coal. Quite a distinction, I'd say.
And, by-the-way, Germany is enduring the short-term increases in CO2 for 2 reasons: Their lying-ass colluding automakers have been cheating emission standards (perhaps you 'fake news' invertebrates remember those on-going scandals?) and March 11, 2011. You remember March 11, 2011? German nuclear energy electricity production has declined over 30% since that day of infamy.
Trumpies are re-licensing 50-year old nuke plants and building new-and-improved bombs, STILL without any clue as to remediation of toxic sites or permanent disposal of wastes. How'd that plutonium to MOX-fuel work out for you? HA! Let's build 'magnificent walls' around Georgia and South Carolina, and bury the mega-tons of glowing goo, there.
No great loss to America ...
WGAF if Germany has lowered their carbon emissions 20%? All they are doing is increasing their energy costs dramatically. 2011:
2013:
“.....The government predicts that the renewable energy surcharge added to every consumer's electricity bill will increase from 5.3 cents today to between 6.2 and 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour -- a 20-percent price hike.
German consumers already pay the highest electricity prices in Europe. But because the government is failing to get the costs of its new energy policy under control, rising prices are already on the horizon. Electricity is becoming a luxury good in Germany, and one of the country's most important future-oriented projects is acutely at risk.
After the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan two and a half years ago, Merkel quickly decided to begin phasing out nuclear power and lead the country into the age of wind and solar. But now many Germans are realizing the coalition government of Merkel's CDU and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) is unable to cope with this shift. Of course, this doesn't mean that the public has any more confidence in a potential alliance of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens. The political world is wedged between the green-energy lobby, masquerading as saviors of the world, and the established electric utilities, with their dire warnings of chaotic supply problems and job losses.
Even well-informed citizens can no longer keep track of all the additional costs being imposed on them. According to government sources, the surcharge to finance the power grids will increase by 0.2 to 0.4 cents per kilowatt hour next year. On top of that, consumers pay a host of taxes, surcharges and fees that would make any consumer's head spin.
Former Environment Minister Jürgen Tritten of the Green Party once claimed that switching Germany to renewable energy wasn't going to cost citizens more than one scoop of ice cream. Today his successor Altmaier admits consumers are paying enough to "eat everything on the ice cream menu."
Paying Big for Nothing
For society as a whole, the costs have reached levels comparable only to the euro-zone bailouts. This year, German consumers will be forced to pay €20 billion ($26 billion) for electricity from solar, wind and biogas plants -- electricity with a market price of just over €3 billion. Even the figure of €20 billion is disputable if you include all the unintended costs and collateral damage associated with the project. Solar panels and wind turbines at times generate huge amounts of electricity, and sometimes none at all. Depending on the weather and the time of day, the country can face absurd states of energy surplus or deficit.
If there is too much power coming from the grid, wind turbines have to be shut down. Nevertheless, consumers are still paying for the "phantom electricity" the turbines are theoretically generating. Occasionally, Germany has to pay fees to dump already subsidized green energy, creating what experts refer to as "negative electricity prices."
On the other hand, when the wind suddenly stops blowing, and in particular during the cold season, supply becomes scarce. That's when heavy oil and coal power plants have to be fired up to close the gap, which is why Germany's energy producers in 2012 actually released more climate-damaging carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than in 2011.
If there is still an electricity shortfall, energy-hungry plants like the ArcelorMittal steel mill in Hamburg are sometimes asked to shut down production to protect the grid. Of course, ordinary electricity customers are then expected to pay for the compensation these businesses are entitled to for lost profits.
The government has high hopes for the expansion of offshore wind farms. But the construction sites are in a state of chaos: Wind turbines off the North Sea island of Borkum are currently rotating without being connected to the grid. The connection cable will probably not be finished until next year. In the meantime, the turbines are being run with diesel fuel to prevent them from rusting.....”
http://spiegel.de/international/germany ... 20288.html
Meanwhile German companies continue to flock to the US to take advantage of much lower energy costs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/eu ... f3f84e0bbb
Yet Aho Dumbass want to emulate the krauts with their disasterous energy policy..
Nobody cares about my Leftist Dreams anymore
