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[โ€“] 1 point 10 hours ago (1 child)

I concur that our politicians are a bunch of right wing cunts. But the rest you're writing is drivel. Socialism is the only thing keeping the people happy. Capitalism only makes the capital-holders happy. And yes, electricity is expensive here but not because of the bullshit you shat on your keyboard, rather because of:

Taxes - we have super high taxes on electricity. This is OK, because taxes ensure that we can all live decent lives here.

Costs for expanding the electrical grid - this is inevitable as more and more electricity is consumed. These aren't sunk costs however.

Electricity market - the price is based on the most expensive currently required form of electricity, which is gas. Nuclear power would make this more expensive.

The conservative cunts who want to stick with gas are the corrupt fucks that ruin it for us.

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  • [โ€“] -2 points 10 hours ago*

    Idk, renewables won't help you when the sun's not shining in the winter. Renewables won't help you when the winds are calm in the winter. When the winter comes and you need to heat your own home, you like all the rest of your countrymen will be depending on fossil fuels. Don't forget about the future heat waves Europe's about to experience, you will need more electricity to cool down your homes because you did not have the foresight like Americans who actually think that summers are hot and need to cool people. That's the difference is you need to think!

    My friend look at how many poor people died in Europe because there was no investment in the electrical grid and into cooling your cities. In the USA we would not allow that to happen because capitalism actually cares for people's well-being and people know that they wanted to stay cool so they were able to buy that. In Europe, your regulations don't allow you to do anything and there is no innovation and so people died. This is no different than what happened in communist Russia when so many people die because there's no food because there was no innovation. Truly, all those that have died are just caused by more socialist practices. It really makes me sick to my stomach how Europeans are just okay with many people dying in the streets because of the heat when the USA has proven that you could cool down cities. You just do it. You open up the free market and capitalism will fix it all for you people!

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