trysail
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you act like a smoker when it comes to coal. germany has had some of the highest electricity prices for a long time - since before their transition to renewable energy five years ago. i'm sure there's a chart or graph somewhere you can scrounge up, if you actually wanted to look for reality, instead of pushing your anti renewable energy propaganda.
https://global.handelsblatt.com/edition/395/ressort/companies-markets/article/electricity-prices-in-a-free-fall
if you read the article, the real price of electricity has dropped dramatically since the introduction of renewable energy. so much so that nuclear plants can't keep up. much of german electric pricing reflects the high taxes imposed on the electric sector.
You've just made completely contradictory statements because you have no idea what is going on in Germany.
In fact, Germany is building coal-fired electricity generating units as fast as it can in hope that it will be able to keep the lights on. The dumbass Green lunatics shut down the country's largest source of "clean" energy (and you know exactly what I'm talking about— its entire nuclear generating fleet).
German retail consumers pay through the nose for electricity while industrial users are reaping low prices that reflect oversupply created by the insane overbuilding of wind power caused by the stupid government subsidies imposed by the Green nutters.
The traditional generators have been fucked (just as the California generators were fucked) by boneheaded dimwitted bureaucrats who swallowed pseudoscience promoted by swindlers.
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This is what the dumbass CO2 Klimate Krazies have done in Europe.
They've raised everybody's energy prices, screwed their economies and haven't reduced greenhouse gas emissions by one iota. The whole thing has been a giant boondoggle.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/todayinenergy/images/2014.11.18/main.png
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