That is just the added transition fee that is piled onto the already high electric cost, which is approximately triple of what we pay here.
Just energy costs alone coupled with a corporate tax reduction would bring many German and European companies into the USA to manufacture goods here.
That is just the added transition fee that is piled onto the already high electric cost, which is approximately triple of what we pay here.
Just energy costs alone coupled with a corporate tax reduction would bring many German and European companies into the USA to manufacture goods here.
Sometimes, when I am in a benevolent mood, I like to think that it’s a clever scheme to achieve a larger degree of energy independence from Russia, Saudi Arabia et al., covered by CO2 “window dressing” to appease the Green fools.
Then again, they wouldn’t have shut down nuke power then. No, it’s just sheer stupidity (Occam’s Razor).
After Obama, green energy is he next biggest fraud.
Germany is a basket case. I lived there and worked there.
I had an office in a BRAND NEW BUILDING. Within 6 months they tore out all the light fixtures and replaced them with motion activated LEDs and removed all the wall switches. The sensors would turn on the lights directly above that were spaced out about 20 feet from each other. And soon as one went on, the one behind went off. In the office, the lights would shut off every ten minutes or so and someone would have to move around to trip the sensors back on. So to save a few pennies a year (they were already using skylights and LEDs) they must have spent millions of Euro to install all these sensors.
You should have heard the scolding I got from the cleaning lady when I would throw plastic bottles in the trash.
In the meantime, both India and China are introducing the lowest priced cars ever in record numbers. India’s Tata costs about $2000. More drivers are entering the market than ever before, and China still relies heavily on coal.
Anything Germany does will be more than cancelled out by China and India, and that’s assuming that this CO2 idea has any credibility in the first place, which is questionable.
These “green” initiatives are just profit scams by connected insiders, like Solyndra.
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