Reply #10: First off, it's not 14% of primary energy. Secondly, Merkel is a gutless asshole.

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She has refused to overturn the idiotic German policy of stupidly vandalizing the largest, by far, source of Germany's Greenhouse Gas Free Energy.

She knows that the policy is stupid too and still doesn't have the guts to turn it over.

She has stood by with her thumb in her ass because her predecessor is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gazprom.

Germany has zero plans to phase out coal. It will not do so, and the minute that the wind stops blowing, the Germans will turn to Slovakia, France and to their shiny new coal plants.

What the geniuses in Germany seem not to have realized is that the freighters lugging their coal from South Africa will all be diesel powered - and no, the diesel is not biodiesel from the rototilled rain forests of Sumatra.

When one hears this dopey "percent talk" one immediately recognizes that the unstated portion of the commentary is this: "84% of German power is NOT produced by renewable energy."

We're more than half a decade since the grand German nuclear phase out was announced. Last I looked, 84% of Germans have not announced an intention to use no power unless it comes from renewable energy.

She has a great new climate change policy, by the way: "Play pretend, and avoid counting:"

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37033/story.htm

In fact, Germany has vast plans to increase the percentage of energy that is not Greenhouse gas free and frankly, to import the rest of its electricity from places like Poland.

Germany has the dumbest policy in Europe. It's about to get disastrously worse.