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Because the same brain rot makes the same kind of people go insane there, too, and then vote for corrupt "conservatives" that sabotage renewables for fossil fuels (read: for the juicy bribes the fossil industry pays).
Germany is just working on new legislation to prevent renewables where the grid isn't build up to handle it while also providing zero reasons for grid providers to build up the grid. Then they complete the package with no guaranteed feed-in compensation anymore.
Which obvious leads to a "sure you can build renewables, but a third party benefitting from fossil fuels has total control over your ability to sell your product"-situation were exactly noone will ever invest in renewables anymore. (PS: storage was also blocked by insane double taxation for years before a different government fixed that, and so instead the CEO of the record-holder in burying applications for connecting storage to the grid in red-tape -literal years for a process that should take a few days- was awarded with a job as Minister of Economy and Energy...)
They are doing exactly the same bullshit, they are just not as obnoxiously loud and boastful with their insanity as the orange moron is.
I mean it's not exactly the same bullshit in the extent of it.
Sad thing is: We used to be on the right track. Not nearly fast enough, but at least we were headed the right direction. As of today, my energy meter shows each sunny summer day, we have like 120% of Germany's energy demand met by renewables. We now need a bit more of it, plus storage, plus the grid to make it work during the morning, evening, night and winter. But then we got an incompetent government, politicians said we now have other things to do and becoming more right-wing is more important than continue to fix the energy situation... Also doesn't help how we now spend a lot of taxpayer money on war machinery instead of useful stuff. It's a shame.