cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53175054

“In this federal government, we are no longer pursuing climate policy against industry. We are pursuing it with industry,” Merz said at a meeting of his conservative bloc’s youth wing in the south-western German town of Rust on Saturday.

      • einkorn@feddit.orgEnglish
        91·
        17 hours ago

        Hey, don’t forget the SPD and Sigmar Gabriel in particular, who competently followed up Altmaier in burying the solar companies.

  • Ooops@feddit.orgEnglish
    12·
    17 hours ago

    Those fucking liars were always the ones fighting climate policies done with the industry. It’s decades of their bullshit policies working against the industry and economy in general.

    They killed the solar (and later partly killed wind industry) for their rich donors in fossil fuels. Hundreds of thousands jobs gone while they publically whined about a few thousand coal workers they needed to protect.

    They let the people pay extra for the renewable upbuild while subsidising coal to keep it relevant. And they sabotaged the grids for decades so they could claim limited use of renewables “although they really tried to make it work *wink wink*”.

    Right now they are blocking permits for massive amounts of large scale battery storage (build with zero public money) (*) so they can claim they need to build more natural gas power plants (for a triple-digit billion…) for stable energy production.

    (*: as well as slowing down further solar and wind power upbuild finally being on track after ~3 years of a non brain-dead conservative government)

    All while loudly screaming how those evil renewables are to blame for high electricity costs when in reality it’s an overdependence on expensive fossil fuels driving up the price coupled with lacking transmission capacities they intentionally created to have an argument to not shut off certain coal power plants.

    And guess what… their “let the tax payers pay for the gifts to our rich buddies in the fossil fuels” is now combined with “let them pay even more to subsidize the electricity costs we drove up for the industry, on top of them also having to pay those inflated costs at their homes already”.

    And while car producers are constantly losing market share in less backward markets and literally begging for clear legal guidelines so they can create a proper roadmap with some planning certainty the government -for the 100th time at least- loudly muses how it’s maybe bad to plan electric mobility as combustion engines are so much better than the “evil green propaganda” suggests.

    And they do all this while lamenting how we really need to get rid of the “stupid climate protections” (which they actually fought tooth and nail for years) to save their big donors trying to squeeze out the last bits out of an obviously obsolete business model before it runs into a wall the German economy.