Der Spiegel: How German Electricity Became A Luxury Item.

[NNadir]

28. My, my, my, this is an elaborate series of proofs that all of the poor people in...

...Germany are living lives of luxury in a happy nirvana of so called "renewable energy" - Germany - and that a secret conspiracy by Merkel is in place to make, um, the grand renewable victory over climate change look like a miserable failure.

Um, one wonders why it took so many posts to prove this point, whatever it was...I confess I really didn't read it all that carefully...it started to sound like some kind of tiresome rant of the kind I often here when I post those things called, um, "numbers."

I'm sure though that you proved that the only reason that all these people all over the internet, and all over the primary scientific literature are claiming that German electricity is expensive that they simply don't understand energy like, um, you do.

I'm very pleased to learn that everyone in Germany, even the people that Der Speigel claims are suffering from energy poverty are all actually living full happy lives. I am pleased to learn that a, um, German publication is clearly less informed about Germany then, um, you are, but then again, as a person who is indicated in the, um, climate, more than selling and distributing toxic junk around the planet, I do get cranky.

I'm laboring under the delusion, apparently, that 2013 is one of the worst years ever observed for increases in dangerous fossil fuel waste in the planetary atmosphere. I don't want to hurt their feelings, so why don't you write to those folks over at the Mauna Loa CO2 observatory to tell them they're full of biodigestable pig poop.

Here they are: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

Thank you for your calm and clear refutation of my claim, and the claim of the people over at the EU's Energy Portal, that electricity prices in Germany are the second highest in Europe, after Denmark's.

If you want to smash these misleading folks at the EU's energy portal, again, here's the link to their awful right wing conspiracy website: http://www.energy.eu/

I had no idea that this had no effect on any poor people or that poor people don't exist in Germany.

Thanks, um, for sharing.

Have a nice evening.