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German Greens Leak Secret Plan to Turn Back to Coal

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David Blackmon
Jan 13, 2024
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I mean, c’mon, you have to love this story coming from the Berliner Zietung today. Germany’s “green” economy minister Robert Habeck is apparently circulating a plan that would increase Germany’s reliance on coal as the main source of baseload power to keep the lights on.

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The plan was leaked Friday in an apparent trial balloon effort by the greens to gauge public reaction, which should be quite interesting to see. It might be eagerly received by the public, which has seen electricity rates skyrocket in recent years due to the country’s idiotic Energiewende initiative that tried to shift the entire power sector to wind farms and not much else.

Here’s an excerpt from the story:

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