No one has bought into the green craze than the Germans.They have committed huge amounts of capital into the manufacture and design of products. Thus far VW and the others have had no return on investment. The government has forced power companies to go green. Now the cost of electricity to consumers exceeds 30 cents per kilowatt hour. The cost is actually higher since taxes are being used to subsidize the power companies. Squandered capital cannot be recovered. Germany is on the brink of a recession. The Germans over the past 100 years have made monumental strategic blunders. They never seem to learn.
[Germany is on the brink of a recession. The Germans over the past 100 years have made monumental strategic blunders. They never seem to learn.]
Well, it’s not like they’re associate with any World Wa....
(yes, some of my ancestors are German, too)
Now the cost of electricity to consumers exceeds 30 cents per kilowatt hour. The cost is actually higher since taxes are being used to subsidize the power companies. Squandered capital cannot be recovered.
And it gets worse!
They are shutting all the nukes that provide steady power for industry, replaced with windmills.
The problem, the wind is at the North Sea, the industry is mostly in the south.
NO ONE wants the new power lines in their backyard or chopping the beautiful German forests.
Germany will soon have the technological prowess of palestine or congo
We have this vision of Germans as the ultimate ‘modern day people’ — efficient, clinical, bureaucratic, passionless, arrogant. That is what they show the world and themselves...
It’s partially true, but... A barbarian, living in a land of plenty, out in his forests worshiping Wotan with sacrifices of his enemies is in the heart of every German. Mysticism and environmentalism were both really big in Germany before WW1 and der fuhrer made those types of mystical and ethnic crap (blood and soil) appeals a huge part of Nazi propaganda. They still feel that pull of the forest and the call of the Valkyries.
Germans are completely rational...until they are completely bat crap irrational, but the irrational is always there influencing policy and strategic thinking.
Spain damn near went broke buying into it.