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[+] 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
  • [โ€“] 19 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    A few additions:

    The solar industry didn't just lose subsidies, the government actively tried to prevent the installation of new solar panels.

    The nuclear exit actually made a bit of sense; our existing NPPs were mostly old and extending their like was getting increasingly uneconomic. At the same time we had very few locations where new ones could be built. They actually had a solid economic case for the nuclear exit.

    They even had a good plan for the exit itself, letting existing contacts run out and simply not renewing them. Then they decided to exit the nuclear exit, renewing all of the contracts. Then, after the Fukushima disaster, they decided to exit the exit from the nuclear exit and immediately terminated all contracts, having to pay large penalties for the early termination.

    For twenty years they followed the "Black Zero" plan, which amounted to trying to incur no new debt on the federal level whatsoever, no matter what. As a result, they spent basically nothing on infrastructural upkeep and the army and then suddenly found themselves having to take on 100 billion euros in emergency debt because bridges were collapsing, trains had no usable tracks and the Bundeswehr is unable to actually fight.

    The CDU/CSU are mind-bogglingly inept at handing the economy.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 5 months ago

    and immediately terminated all contracts, having to pay large penalties for the early termination.

    That was actually a solid move to funnel large sums of money toward the big energy companies, which they had not received otherwise. So all according to plan.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I mean funnily enough all examples lead to a shitty interpretation of being "conservative": kill progressive technologies and stick to the old shit.

    Nooo, Photovoltaic does scary shit with photons, that sounds dangerous. Nooo, electric cars don't wrooom. Nooo, fiber optics contain too much fiber, we don't know what 'fiber' or 'optics' even is.

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