The title sounds like the protestors weren’t asking for any specific steps but
Merz’s coalition, and in particular Reiche – a former energy company executive – have come under fire over various policies, including support for watering down EU-wide car emissions rules and their plans to build more gas-fired power plants.
The chancellor argues steps need to be taken to relieve the burdens on Germany’s struggling manufacturers, and help revive Europe’s biggest economy whose heavy industry has suffered from high energy costs.
Hilarious coz solar+battery is now the cheapest and has near zero international market risk
Good. Renewable energy makes us less vulnerable to the volatile oil markets and more resilient in general.
Electricity costs are already decoupling from volatility of fossil fuel-driven energy prices and still the politicians bought by the fossil fuel industry fight it (https://flex-power.energy/energyblog/the-great-decoupling/)
I have waited all my life for the death of the fossil fuel industry.
Anyone have any tips on how to accelerate it?
Saw a journalist whining about “dependency on China” because they sell infrastructure for renewables… you can’t make this up
Then maybe we shouldn’t have let Altmayer fuck up our own solar industry.
Good point for investing in local sodium-ion-technology. No graphite or rare earth metals needed, and sodium is extremely abundant.
Will the rest of the population vote in that favor though? My guess, next election will be about iMmIgRaNtS again.
