I like this man, head of German liberals Free Democratic
Party (FDP), Christian Lindner. The man mainly responsible for the FDP
resurgence in the German Bundestag elections last September 24.
"The project
of the century Energiewende [transition to green energies] has failed. None of
the agreed targets will be reached. Climate protection is stalled, energy
prices are rising and they are burdening us as electricity consumers, just as
they are the industry and middle class. And not least of all it is becoming
increasingly difficult to guarantee a secure power supply during the winter
months.” -- Christian Lindner.
Source: No Tricks Zone, Germany’s
Green Energy Project Close To Death: “EEG Feed-In Act Has Failed …Has To Go!” (29 September 2017)
Merkel's CDU/CSU needs an ally to retain the
majority. Almost impossible to ally with 3rd place AfD, 2nd place SPD already
broke up with them. Merkel definitely needs 4th place FDP and very likely 5th place Greens
but the FDP and Greens are now poles apart in energy policy. The latter wants Germany's expensive, unstable energy to become even more expensive, even more
unstable because of their kill-coal, subsidize-endlessly-wind+solar policies.
Here's a possible opposition Watermelon (green outside, red inside) coalition: SPD + Greens + Linke. All of them have the same hatred of fossil fuels, they just differ on the degree of their hatred, and all of them are users of fossil fuels -- in electricity, cars/inland mobility, planes and long distance trips.
I think Mr. Lindner is now asserting the liberal position
of market competition, less government intervention. In particular, energy competition. Focus on price and power stability, a very
important factor for industrial Germany producing world-class cars, robots,
monster machines, etc. Energiewende is killing energy competition. Only
wind + solar + biomass, hydro, others should be prioritized by govt energy central planning. The
rest -- coal, nuke, gas -- decimate if not kill them. FDP now under Lindner is
reasserting the classical liberal, freedom-oriented public policies.
FDP leadership is right and correct in moving into energy
realism and competition and away from watermelon movement and energy
leftism-cronyism.
A German friend noted that "there are contractual and legal obligations to be honored and rule
of law in place. Dismantling the energy turnaround can only be a step by step
process if the government wants to avoid massive amounts of litigation, much of
which will be successful. this is the most problematical aspect of the turnaround:
its partial irreversibility."
Good points, and its good that the FDP will try to
stop these economic and energy lunacy of glorifying expensive, intermittent,
unstable energy sources in an energy-intensive industralized econ like Germany.
Also the reason why Trump is leaving the Paris agreement,
to help avoid possible multi trillion $ lawsuits from crony renewables, crony
Tesla and related industries and firms.
Other related recent papers from NTZ:
Germany’s
Energiewende “An Economic, Social and Ecological Disaster”, Writes Top German
Socialist! 19 May 2017
3 October 2017
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See also:
Energy 97, Solar can replace coal power in the PH? July 03, 2017
Germany moving more to the right is good, September 30, 2017
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