DrCaleb DrCaleb:
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Germany and Italy won't be able to buy oil and gas. But then again, Germany and Italy won't be able to buy oil and gas.
The anti-nuclear power campaign that caused German utility costs to spike and made them hostage to Russian gas has to be one of the largest domestic policy blunders any major country has made in the last several decades. The Germans had to have known that the solar & wind were in no way capable of replacing nuclear yet they did it anyway in order to placate the unthinking environmental movement. And German CO2 emissions are way up anyway, as they've gone back to using more coal fuel to replace what they took away by shutting down nuclear.
Fukushima made some people do stupid things.