http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/
german_gov_desperate_to_keep_coal_and_gas_powerpla nts_running/

Predictable but sad, really.

Someone hasn't worked out that power companies won't run fossil fuel
plants at zero profit just to subsidise renewables.

Cheers

Dave R

On 20/08/13 22:17, David.WE.Roberts wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/german_gov_desperate_to_keep_coal_and_gas_powerpla nts_running/
Indeed. German energy policy is even more up **** creek than ours is.

Wonderful piece from the global warming policy foundation, reprinted
from an Aussie newspaper.

http://www.thegwpf.org/benny-peiser-...-green-future/

'Europe, The Washington Post recently warned, €œhas become a green-energy
basket case. Instead of a model for the world to emulate, Europe has
become a model of what not to do.€�'

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(in-ep-toc-ra-cy) €“ a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.