1. The article said: "...With the cost of consumer-born subsidies at 25 euros bln per annum and surcharges of 6.88 euro cents per kWh, or twice the market price of a kilowatt, Germans pay three times more than Americans today..." The article says this like it's a bad thing (and it IS bad) but to Euroweenie socialists (like the kind Obama and his ilk were trying to ape) that is a wonderful thing. They think those high costs will make their utopian BS dream come true faster, like whips on the back of slaves rowing a galley.
2.) The process they enacted in Germany (the Energiewende green energy fantasy) sounds EXACTLY like what they are trying to do in Vermont. And not only is it failing just as spectacularly there, it has one additional humorous side to it that nearly makes it worth it. I talked to a woman who has a farm in Vermont, and she had her own solar panels installed, so we got on the subject of Vermont energy policy. (She installed them to try to protect herself from the coming inevitable brownout/blackouts that accompany socialist energy schemes) The amusing part is that it is failing so spectacularly that they now have to purchase nuclear generated power from the Canadians, which is infuriating the greenies up there!