How’s the Green New Deal working out in Germany? Not very well at all.
Firstly, Germany will be in recession for about 3 years, with decreasing GDP in 2023, 2024, 2025.
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This is due to the Merkel policies continued by liberal arts major Minster Robert Habeck (Green Party), who has no education in economics, business, finance or government administration, but is a smooth-talking party hack.
He has been promoted way above his abilities. He does not know what he’s doing.
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Secondly, German energy prices are among the most highest in Europe
The German power supply has become more unstable than ever, due to increased reliance on wind and solar systems
Germany is now in a rapid deindustrialization tailspin.
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Pure EVs aren’t selling
Another indicator that the Green New Deal is faltering badly: sales of new pure EVs have plummeted 27.5%, reports
Blackout News here, citing data from the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). “Only 380,600 pure EVs were newly registered.
This corresponds to a decrease of 27.5% compared to the previous year.”
524,219 pure EVs purchased in 2023.
380,609 pure EVs purchased in 2024.
That’s a 27.5% decline in sales.
“Diesel cars were even ahead of new pure EVs at 17.2 percent of total car sales, reports Blackout News.
“These figures show how far away Germany is from the government’s EV targets.
According to the KBA, there were only 1.4 million pure EVs on the roads at end 2024, while the target is around 15 million by 2030.”
It looks like about 4 million pure EVs will be on the road by 2030, a significant shortfall.
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With the really dismal figures, pure EV proponents, as usual, are calling for more subsidies to entice consumers to opt for pure EVs, but there is no money in the budget, because of increased military production being sent to Ukraine where it is destroyed after a few days of use.
Those folks also want to impose higher taxes to punish the realistic people who refuse to buy useless pure EVs.
These realistic people prefer buying diesel or gasoline vehicles, which are:
1) more reliable, and
2) cheaper to own and operate, and
3) last a lot longer, and
4) are operationally much more useful for all sorts of purposes, such as for long-distance travel, hauling heavier loads, transporting 3 or 4 people, and during cold and hot weather, and during snow and ice conditions, etc.
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Future remains bleak for pure EVs
So what does the future hold?
That of course will depend on the outcome of the coming February 23 national elections.
Currently the dysfunctional, out-of-favor CDU/CSU coalition is leading in the polls (29%) and are expected to win.
But a new government under chancellor Friedrich Merz would likely continue Angela Merkel’s disastrous green policies, albeit at a slower rate than the current socialist-Green government under Olaf Scholz.
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Growing resistance to existing politics; the rise of AfD is happening soon
However, Germany’s AfD party, led by the charismatic Alice Weidel, is steadily closing the gap (22%), and today there’s even a chance of a major upset occurring come the end of February!
The momentum is clearly on their side. Elon Musk called the AfD “the last hope to save Germany.”
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Though a victory by AfD likely would not mean the chancellorship, and thus a takeover of the reins of power, it would be another major setback the extremely unpopular green movement.
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To make matters worse for the German green movement, President Trump will certainly bring energy prices down in USA, and thus further worsen Germany’s economic uncompetitiveness.
Germany's elites have only themselves to blame ...
The German people needs to wake up from its propaganda-induced, green coma and vote those elites out.
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In summary, the next four years don’t offer much hope for Germany and its crumbling green movement.
To reach the unrealistic, expensive, green goals, Big Brother, Hitlerite, authoritarian measures, including severe censorship, would need to be enacted.
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Merkel ‘ruined’ Germany, Ukraine conflict, ‘Hitlerite’ censorship: Key points from Musk’s talk with AfD leader
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/merkel-ruined-germany-...
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Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has hosted a lengthy conversation with the co-chair of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel.
Up to 150 experts were expected to monitor the talk livestreamed on X on Thursday evening for potential violations of Germany’s election laws, according to Politico.
Musk earlier ruffled feathers in Berlin by praising the AfD’s policies, including its tough stance on immigration. .
During his talk with Weidel, he reaffirmed his belief that “only AfD can save Germany” ahead of the 2025 parliamentary election.
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Merkel ‘ruined’ Germany.
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Weidel slammed former Chancellor Angela Merkel for her ‘open-door policy’ during the 2015 migrant crisis, when Germany accepted around 1 million asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East.
Merkel “basically ruined our country,” Weidel stated, arguing that the phaseout of cheap nuclear energy
“destroyed the backbone” of the German economy.
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Merkel recently criticized the decision to abandon Russian gas, but she is the main cause of Germany's present malaise, because:
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1) she and Sarkosy and Poroshenko and Zelensky, etc., had no intention of implementing the Minsk Agreements, which were an extremely good deal for Ukraine, which is now ruined,
2) she shut down the nuclear plants, and
3) she was a big promoter of the super-expensive, disastrous ENERGIEWENDE.
4) she was a big promoter of "refugees" from all over, which set up cultural clashes, crazy people driving trucks into shoppers during Christmas time, and social/economic/political unrest to the point of rendering Germany ungovernable and dysfunctional.
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In an interview with France 2 TV in December, she called the past arrangement a “win-win situation,” saying it provided Germany with low-cost energy, which is a bold-faced lie, because Germany has the highest electric rates in Europe.
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She thinks we suffer of amnesia
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/merkel-ruined-germany-...
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