“Germany’s energy system is fully operational” – Watts Up With That?

I suspect Germany is still feeling the pain of President Trump humiliating their green political class back in 2018, by correctly predicting that German reliance on Russian gas and failure to develop domestic fossil fuel resources would undermine their energy security.

The German political class laughed at Trump back then. The climate obsessed German bureaucrats with ring fenced government provided incomes are still trying to laugh. But no German who has to make a living in the real economy is laughing.

If Germany continues with the green madness, the entire nation is on a one way trip to Venezuelan levels of national destitution, or worse – except for the privileged bureaucrats and politicians of course.

Some Germans are trying to fight back. Parties like AFD did very well in recent elections, though likely this was more to do with AFD’s immigration policies than their climate policies. But AFD also emphatically rejects climate action, which appears to make AFD Germany’s best hope for righting Germany’s energy policy train wreck.

As for the dog eating comment, Trump as far as I know never accused Germans of eating their dogs.

But Germany has a long cultural tradition of eating dogs in times of hardship. Dog meat provided by government owned suppliers was openly served in restaurants in Munich until 1985, within living memory.

Fast forward to today, and we see that millions of Germans, an estimated 45% of Germans are currently suffering energy poverty and financial hardship, thanks to failed German green energy policies. And now it seems likely that imminent large scale job cuts are about to add to the pain of the German people.

Given that level of desperation, anything seems possible.