• DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    Surely taking a hostile side in most global conflicts right now is going to be good for Germany when the countries they offshored their production capacity to decline to trade with them

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    6 months ago

    I wonder how much this has to do with price. There’s certainly a correlation to the increase in electricity prices over the last ten years.

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        The one-two punch of cutting ourselves off from cheap Russian fossil fuels and shutting down all nuclear generation in the same time period has made a huge difference, something like a 30% increase in just two years. It would have been closer to a 50% increase if a the renewable energy surcharge had not been phased out and if the federal government hadn’t temporarily limited the end-user electric price.