High oil prices? Tax cars & jet fuel! | 67 comments (67 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: High oil prices? (4.00 / 4)

BUND für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland: Klima & Energie (Main German environmental NGO; part of Friends of the Earth International)

Mehr als 25 neue Kohlekraftwerke sollen in den nächsten Jahren in Deutschland gebaut werden. Allen voran wollen RWE, Vattenfall, e.on und EnBW wieder in die Technik von gestern investieren. Will Deutschland seine Klimaziele erreichen, darf es keine neuen Kohlekraftwerke geben.

Kampf gegen Kohle (Campaign of the German Green Party)

Kohlekraftwerke sind der Klimakiller Nr. 1. Dennoch planen Vattenfall, RWE & Co. mehr als 30 neue Kohlekraftwerke allein in Deutschland. Gruenes-klima.de informiert und bündelt den bundesweiten Widerstand. Hilf auch Du mit und stoppe die Klimakiller. In der Rubrik "Kampf gegen Kohle" findest du die aktuellsten Informationen zum Widerstand, eine interaktive Online-Karte, alle Ansprechpartner vor Ort und vieles mehr.

Being proper greens, the German greens oppose both nuclear and coal. I have to say that the intensity of the anti-coal sentiment has increased a lot since the end of the red-green government. But even in that government, it was the SPD (especially Clement and the economy ministry) that was on the side of coal, not the greens.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Thu May 29th, 2008 at 04:43:24 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: High oil prices? (4.00 / 2)

And that is just the reason I voiced my loathing of Clement so often on ET.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu May 29th, 2008 at 04:46:06 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: High oil prices? (none / 0)

Let's see how many of the coal plants are really build in the end. I bet any time that not more than 5 of the more than 25 planned plants will be stopped. And then they are runnung for maybe 60 years.
But if there is any left party involved in the next federal gov, then nuclear is dead in Germany.

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers

by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Thu May 29th, 2008 at 05:12:31 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: High oil prices? (4.00 / 2)

Let's see. I bet just the opposite: for long I thought that these high numbers of 25, 40 coal power plants are wishful thinking on purpose (you push up market value by predicting expansion, and you gather support for the few projects you actually realise). I expect more news like this and this and this. And the Greens (as opposed to SPD NRW) are active protesting wherever there is a project.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu May 29th, 2008 at 06:14:07 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: High oil prices? (none / 1)

The vast German power market, controlled by mindless politicians is the wet dream of Swedish power executives. Vattenfall would so love to build half a dozen big reactors in southerns Sweden for the sole use of exporting power to Germany.

The viability of nuclear in Germany doesn't rest exclusively in the hands of mindless German politicians, but also in the hands of mindless Swedish politicians. ;)

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Fri May 30th, 2008 at 02:07:27 AM EST
[ Parent ]

High oil prices? Tax cars & jet fuel! | 67 comments (67 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Top Diaries

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - December 2023

Clean Energy Wire's Fact Sheet on Upcoming Dutch Election

Recent Diaries

Stoltenberg: A Big Win for Ukraine

Mark Rutte: Using the Nation to Become Secretary General

December 2023

Netanyahu Tells Biden Fu*k Off

Keeping Up with COP28

A Sort-a Truce Extended 24 Hours

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - December 2023

NeXiT the Trump Era of Dutch PM Wilders

Erasure of Palestinians the Zionist Dream

21st Century Pax Americana and Violence

Dublin Far Right Riots After Knife Attack

Clean Break From Peace to War

Woodrow Wilson's Collapse and the Peace Movement

A Children's Sing-Along Annihilate Everyone In Gaza

Xi - Joe Launch a New Communication Probe

The Israeli War Hoax of 40 Beheaded Babies

If Palestinians Are 'Animals'? What Are the Israelis?

Gaza Atrocities and the UN Fail

Clean Energy Wire's Fact Sheet on Upcoming Dutch Election

Broadening the War to Lebanon and Syria-Iraq

Occasional Series