Germany's domestic energy policies and economic environment are driving its biggest industrial players away from home and toward more favorable conditions
Germany’s reliance on renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, combined with the phasing out of nuclear power, has increased the country’s reliance on imports and caused severe price volatility, ultimately putting pressure on both industry and taxpayers
This is false on multiple accounts, our massive reliance on Russian gas, Russias war in Ukraine and the subsequent boycott of their gas increased energy prices, not our renewables. They were the biggest factor that helped in these times because guess what, they are an independent source of energy, unlike imported gas.
Also the nuclear phaseout also wasn’t a factor, as a conservative politician recently got corrected on a very similar topic. In fact, Germany sold more energy to France (massively dependent on nuclear) in 2022 than it bought.
And wtf saying that phasing out nuclear puts pressure on taxpayers, nuclear is cheap in France exclusively because it gets heavily subsidized by French taxpayers, if wind or solar got similar subsidies energy consumption would probably be paid instead of cost something.
Asia Times Online was created early in 1999, at atimes.com, describing itself as a successor in “publication policy and editorial outlook” to the print newspaper Asia Times, owned by Sondhi Limthongkul, a Thai media mogul and leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy, who later sold his business. – source, emphasis mine
None of which makes the paragraph cited by thread op any more correct, obviously. (Fwiw: coal power is cheap in China because it is heavily subsidized & there’s no CO2 trading scheme, afaik. Overall, German companies opening factories in China because they’re cheap tracks, however.)
The Asia Times is based in Hong Kong in the meantime, so the Chinese government will have a close hold on what they publish. That’s why I’d agree with what others already said to not trust them to much …
Just fyi: China does have its own national carbon trading scheme, but it appears to be as ineffective as those in the West.
This is false on multiple accounts, our massive reliance on Russian gas, Russias war in Ukraine and the subsequent boycott of their gas increased energy prices, not our renewables. They were the biggest factor that helped in these times because guess what, they are an independent source of energy, unlike imported gas.
Also the nuclear phaseout also wasn’t a factor, as a conservative politician recently got corrected on a very similar topic. In fact, Germany sold more energy to France (massively dependent on nuclear) in 2022 than it bought.
And wtf saying that phasing out nuclear puts pressure on taxpayers, nuclear is cheap in France exclusively because it gets heavily subsidized by French taxpayers, if wind or solar got similar subsidies energy consumption would probably be paid instead of cost something.
Maybe we shouldn’t trust any media owned, operated, or financed by wealthy sociopaths?
Sondhi Limthongkul[a] (born 7 November 1947) is a Thai media proprietor, conspiracy theorist, pro-Beijing anti-democracy reactionary activist, demagogue, and leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD).
The owners devoted his life to overthrowing democracy and returning to Monarch-ruled authoritarian dictatorship.
This guy appears to be the founder not the owner:
Media Bias Fact Check lists them as “mostly factual”.
None of which makes the paragraph cited by thread op any more correct, obviously. (Fwiw: coal power is cheap in China because it is heavily subsidized & there’s no CO2 trading scheme, afaik. Overall, German companies opening factories in China because they’re cheap tracks, however.)
The Asia Times is based in Hong Kong in the meantime, so the Chinese government will have a close hold on what they publish. That’s why I’d agree with what others already said to not trust them to much …
Just fyi: China does have its own national carbon trading scheme, but it appears to be as ineffective as those in the West.
Wow, they’re hitting all the propaganda birds with this stone, aren’t they?