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Don't forget the following facts when reading this:

Germany is easily the strongest economy in Europe.

Germany's economy is NOT suffering a recession now, and in fact is reasonably OK

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What should the German people expect from their "green" electricity generation in the coming years when their economy is cyclically weak?

1 posted on 02/23/2012 7:09:24 AM PST by AFPhys
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If this is going on in the “strong” “green” economy, what is going to happen to those who are weak... indeed, what is occurring now?


2 posted on 02/23/2012 7:11:03 AM PST by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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You’d think Germany would be smarter than this, but maybe all the money they’ve been squandering on trying to keep Greece afloat was money they could have spent on better and more economical electric service at home. This is not going to sit well with the average German.


3 posted on 02/23/2012 7:12:56 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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If we can ever develop massive power generation say from hydrogen extracted from H20 we can tell those fat OPEC sheiks to go pee in the sand. Its criminal how much fuel costs.
Let them eat their oil instead.


4 posted on 02/23/2012 7:14:41 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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Green is the new red.

The commies love this. They will be happy when people everywhere live in mud huts, and survive on berries and other assorted wild plants.


5 posted on 02/23/2012 7:18:42 AM PST by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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Germany's economy is NOT suffering a recession now, and in fact is reasonably OK

When accounting tricks are used to hide the true numbers, then Germany is a great economy and growing ....

6 posted on 02/23/2012 7:18:52 AM PST by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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That is exactly the kind of thing leftists want. They want the human race t go back to the stoneage, except for themselves of course.


8 posted on 02/23/2012 7:20:17 AM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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Shut down your nuclear plants and sit in the dark. That’s what they voted for.


10 posted on 02/23/2012 7:21:54 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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This is the Obama dream for Americans.

Once he gets the price of gasoline and electricity high enough consumption will drop significantly.

Then he will claim he has reduced reliance on petroleum and coal, reduced pollution and turned America “Green”.


12 posted on 02/23/2012 7:24:16 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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US fascist democrats are more experienced liars and have worked to keep the economy in disaster mode in order hide the real effects of their "green" policies.
Like their Nazi heroes in the thirties, they had a patsy to blame the economy on in hopes of having everyone focus on the patsy rather than the fact that the government is the real problem. That's what the whole "Occupy" mess is about, a failed attempt by the Fascists to have people chase the boogieman they've singled out rather than looking at the facts.

They have another boogieman in the wings, though, one they can blame for all sorts of economic and social ills. Before summer, they'll have protests against their new enemy and patsy.

13 posted on 02/23/2012 7:27:58 AM PST by Rashputin (Only Newt can defeat both the Fascist democrats and the Vichy GOP)
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A few other facts.

* Germany has a population of 81.4 million.
* Average household size in Germany (2008) is 2.2. So we are only talking about 1.6% of German households not having power.

This is manageable at the moment, but could break bad if there is any sort of economic disruption in Germany. Unfortunately Angela Merkel has shackled them to Greece economic disruption seems fairly likely. Push that number up to 5% of households and you will start getting riots.
14 posted on 02/23/2012 7:28:42 AM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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It’s also important to note that Frau Merkel just recently decided that Germany didn’t need nuclear power any more.

So let’s see what German’s think: Are you more concerned about the *potential* for man made global warming in a few hundred years, maybe; or about freezing to death in the dark right now?


18 posted on 02/23/2012 7:31:57 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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It’s also important to note that Frau Merkel just recently decided that Germany didn’t need nuclear power any more.

So let’s see what Germans think: Are you more concerned about the *potential* for man made global warming in a few hundred years, maybe; or about freezing to death in the dark right now?


19 posted on 02/23/2012 7:32:09 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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Coming soon to an electric bill near you.


24 posted on 02/23/2012 7:34:57 AM PST by bgill (Romney & Obama are both ineligible. A non-NBC GOP prez shuts down all ?s on Obama's admin)
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The more radical Greens (all over the world) believe we have too many people on the planet.
They would like to see half or more of humans eradicated. They view human life as a parasite. Many Nazi parallels in my opinion
29 posted on 02/23/2012 7:44:23 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
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I know of a country that has trillions of tons of cheap coal that it could sell them.

Oh, I forgot that is considered ‘dirty’ power.


35 posted on 02/23/2012 8:09:21 AM PST by Bob Buchholz
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“under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket…”


36 posted on 02/23/2012 8:13:45 AM PST by null and void (Day 1129 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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Germany doing reasonably “Ok” equates to 2.7% growth in GDP, a per capita GDP nearly 20~25% lower than in the US and 7.1% unemployment, the normal mediocrity and malaise that is considered the good times in a pseudo socialist economy. 3% GDP growth and ~7% unemployed is the norm, not some recession where politicians get booted from office as Bush H., Bush W. and is even causing Obama trouble.

It's a matter of perspective.

37 posted on 02/23/2012 8:13:45 AM PST by Red6
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I’m sure our esteemed leader could advise the Germans on how to handle this. The government just needs to declare energy an entitlement and tell the power companies to deliver it for free to those who can’t pay. End of problem.


43 posted on 02/23/2012 8:24:11 AM PST by Think free or die
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One of the last great freedoms we enjoy is the ability to place whatever we want in the trunk of an automobile and then travel at will, with our stuff, to anywhere we’d like in the Continental United States. Marxist do not like this. They can’t control where we go, when we go, or what we can take. If fuel can be priced so as to make the only travel option a government form of mass transit, THEN they can tell you when you can go, where you can go and more importantly, what you can take. This effectively does away with the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches.


53 posted on 02/23/2012 8:49:48 AM PST by 762X51
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ping


61 posted on 02/23/2012 10:08:24 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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