Climate Change: What's your take?

[Scisca]

Groundking said:

Scisca said:
To me it's all business at this point, especially the extremely brutal climate regulation in the EU. I think the only reason Europe is so crazy about anti-CO2 policy, is cause "green energy" is ridiculously expensive and developing it cost Germany a shit-ton of money and if they don't force other countries, nobody will buy it from them and they'll never earn money on it. Similar situation in France, but it's nuclear power in their case. It's all about money, nothing else.

France's per electricity costs are actually a fair bit lower than the OECD average. France is a great exaple about why we need to stop building oil and coal powerstations, you get cleaner energy and energy that isn't really any more expensive.

Yeah, but that doesn't include the costs of setting up these nuclear powerplants, does it? This opinion and European policy ignores the fact, that different countries have different possibilities. In the case of Poland, we have 85% of Europe's black coal:

We have huge brown coal resources as well. So why the heck would we want to invest in nuclear, solar or wind energy? Why would we stop using cheap coal? No reason, so we are being forced, mainly by Germany, to purchase these stupid windmills (despite not having sufficient winds to make them effective) and wasting money on their other "green" technologies.

It's nothing more, but the stronger and richer keeping the weaker one in a chokehold and forcing him to hand over his money.