Schnell! Schnell! Zey must build more wind farms!
Amid the flickering of flares and torches, many of the 1,600 people losing their jobs stood stone-faced as the glowing metal of the plant’s last product — a steel pipe — was smoothed to a perfect cylinder on a rolling mill. The ceremony ended a 124-year run that began in the heyday of German industrialization and weathered two world wars, but couldn’t survive the aftermath of the energy crisis. […]
The underpinnings of Germany’s industrial machine have fallen like dominoes. The US is drifting away from Europe and is seeking to compete with its transatlantic allies for climate investment. China is becoming a bigger rival and is no longer an insatiable buyer of German goods. The final blow for some heavy manufacturers was the end of huge volumes of cheap Russian natural gas.
Enjoy the decline.
Deloitte is calling itself and engineering company, hah!
The civilized world is committing suicide.
Elon Musk may be too late?
Any world that sacrifices its children to sexual deviancy is not civilised. At all.
But … not before the elites PROFIT from the decline … at the expense of the little people …
https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/residential-electric-rate-plan-pricing.pdf
What does that chart show? Germany is paying 0.24/KwH? What a joke … come to PG&E land! Where your Peak price is 0.62/KwH
Similar to ottawa intentions for the west
The EU is an anti human self loathing culture.. They cant even deal with a border dispute 500 miles away ..
Im of the mind that the only way to rid Europe of the migrant scourge is to make life as awful as possible.. So they all migrate back where they came from..
Actually “they” will simply hop to the next welfare country that still happens to function and that will accept them as a special class.
If Europe fails, guess where that is.
The Americans really pulled one over the Germans and Western Europe over Ukraine.
Basically made them commit economic suicide with the imposition of sanctions, that benefitted the US.
They now get LNG from the US at double the cost.
Which when all is said and done, is the real reason the US instigated this war by all means possible.
I really did not think the Germans this dumb.
The US warned the Germans not to become dependent on Russia since 1980’s, beginning with Reagan and Yamal pipeline.
S. Korea, Japan, China all have diverse energy supplies, and make things.
German industry and politicians sold Germany out in the 1980. Now chickens have come home to roost. The don’t pay now, pay later bill has come due.
To blame the US which has financially carried, and been distracted by Europe for over a 100 years is a bit rich. Basically Europe has been a self destructive, smug, obnoxious money pit for 100 years. And still is and will be into the foreseeable future.
In short. Stuff it.
Aye dat fraulien from de former east deutchland becomin herr lederhausen unt said ja ja ruskie gaz ist gute ja.
What a shame.
They certainly had the best Beer that ever past my lips onto my palette back then…
Almost every pub made their own Beer too which made walking quite difficult after a few.
Damn, they caught me toe up on that mug.
Still before the illegal imposing of the EURO.
So yes, they were that dumb once…
To summarize Germany’s problem:
– they forgot that affordable, reliable energy is the foundation of a thriving economy
– their political and bureaucratic class have made it difficult for projects to get permits in a reasonable time period
– a rapidly aging population and a skilled workforce is retiring with a growing underclass of immigrants who are unable to replace those needed skilled trades
– voters in their major cities keep voting for the above because they have no idea how the things in the real world work.
– countries like China are taking advantage of the economic disorder and political stupidity.
Hmmm…sounds a lot like Canada, except we have ample energy but it’s being deliberately locked-in by our political and bureaucratic class.
LC
Gerkman’s biggest sin, trusting murcans!
Lots of outside, foreign interference in western countries -but- the voters and political class in countries like Germany and Canada are allowing the interference to be successful.
LC…Excellent summation.
On Point # 1. Energy. Germany shut down their Nukes for what reason again…? The Tsunami in Japan 2011..?? I cannot even wrap my head around that no matter which way I look at it.
SAY Whaaa…???
Yet in a way, it’s unsurprising given the massive rabid anti-nuke community there since the late 50’s early 60’s…now all grown up and supposedly “educated”.
Sucks to be them.
I would add to my comment. Re: shutting down Germanys Nukes down.
Keep in mind who was at the helm of Germany at the time.?
Angela Merkel (Since 2001-2021 no less). The Architect of the Worldwide migrant Invasion (ex Stasi I do believe.?). I’m also fairly certain sure she has been an integral & Important part of Klaus Schwabs WEF.
The politicians and activists in Germany were looking for a reason, any reason, to shut down the nuclear power plants. Activists and politicians are still trying to replicate that strategy in other countries.
As in, Canada must rapidly shut down its oil production and natgas baseload power plants because of a particularly bad year of forest fires. This conveniently ignores the record low fires during the covid years, that the existing carbon tax failed to “stop” the fires, that the clean hydro provinces were just as hard hit and that Canada’s CO2 has minimal impact compared to total world emissions (per capita emissions is not a logical metric).
If you wanted to be as illogical as the Trudeau Liberal-NDP government you could say that forest fires are getting worse as the carbon tax is increasing. That is just as illogical as saying higher carbon taxes will decrease forest fires because a) data shows that that there is no correlation between taxes and fires, b) both scenarios are ignoring all of the other important variables (cyclical drought, arson/carelessness, poor forest management, inadequate fire fighting capability.)
darn.
so the joke about british politicians, french cooks and german engineers as opposed to british cooks, french engineers and german politicians is now the truth?
It seems that the last German that realised that cheap, plentiful energy was a necessity, was one with a bad haircut, and a goofy little mustache…….and paid a visit to the neighbours to try to get a supply of it.
Germany lost two world wars because of food (ww1) and energy needs (ww2).. Now they are going to pretend that none of that happened as they reinvent themselves and the rest of the world around their weaknesses..
Not really the greatest plan IMO..
Decline is a choice. It is not inevitable, it does not have to happen. It could still be reversed, even at this late stage. But that would require saying mean things about some people, and telling the professional virtue signallers to go pound sand.
This is not going to end well. Our local vet recently tried to buy orthopaedic and surgical equipment. So sorry. Can’t get that steel stuff anymore. It’s mostly from Germany and the manufacturers left in the USA are swamped with orders they can’t fill so there is a weeks to months back order. There’s a lot of used stuff available from Pakistan if you want to take a chance on ordering from Pakistan.
Elections have consequences: Germany, leading the race to net zero!
Letting your ‘ally’ the USA blow up your energy supply sure didn’t help. Now USA has banned new LNG export terminals to review ‘climate’ impact. No worse friend.
The industrial consumers of NG (major lobbyists) in the US were behind the export ban as they now have NG at record low prices and want to keep it there.
I have a feeling that the location of U.S. LNG terminals (Texas and Louisiana) might have something to do with this. Consider the timing in relation to the U.S. vs Texas border dust-up.
Thirty years ago, Greenpeace (Germany), funded by German Auto worker’s payroll deduction, were trying to kill BC’s forest industry by scaring away the German (pulp) customers claiming there were no trees left in BC. “Schadenfrozen” indeed!
Green theocracy has, if not dominated German politics, it has decisively influenced their various coalitions as it has now throughout the west. For its Clerisy and congregations, It has replaced Christianity, reason, science, and liberty. As a tool to weaken and destroy western economies, its been most effective but its real benefit has been to anesthetize the minds of otherwise sentient people enabling societal suicide.
“The Bundesbank concluded in a September report that a decline in manufacturing — which accounts for just under 20% of the economy, nearly twice the US’s level — isn’t worrying if it’s gradual. ”
I’m sure the canadian and ontario governments said the same thing with their plans to pivot to a “service economy”. Muppets one and all
The citizens who indirectly vote for this destruction largely work for governments. End their suffrage, provide a choice of either government work, or the vote. They’ll always take the former, the private sector takes the latter, and so begins again electing competence, unlike our current system where the people who finance everything have little say in governance. ie Taxation Without Representation.
And if they ever manage to come to theirs senses, the cost of rebuilding and becoming competitive again and regaining market share will be prohibitive.
Wow. Even Bomber Command wasn’t able to screw up German industry this bad.
If you don’t manufacture the things you need in your own country then you become a slave to another country.