{"id":2579,"date":"2011-04-15T17:56:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T15:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2013-03-01T00:44:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T22:44:01","slug":"german-economy-minister-to-prevent-paper-cuts-we-must-cut-off-our-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/german-economy-minister-to-prevent-paper-cuts-we-must-cut-off-our-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"German economy minister: &#8220;To prevent paper cuts, we must cut off our arms&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, now it is official: Germany has gone <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/en\/news\/Germany-debates-high-cost-of-dumping-nuclear-power-2011-04-15T094829Z-UPDATE-1\" target=\"_blank\">batshit crazy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Power firms should invest massively in coal and gas-fired power technology <\/strong>and renewable energy sources, Harry Voigtsberger, economy minister of Germany&#8217;s most populous state <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Rhine-Westphalia\" target=\"_blank\">North Rhine Westphalia<\/a>, said in the Financial Times Deutschland.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The original article can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftd.de\/politik\/deutschland\/:atomausstieg-energiewende-wird-teuer\/60039782.html\" target=\"_blank\">read here<\/a> (in german).<\/p>\n<p>Angela Markel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/04\/15\/us-germany-nuclear-idUSTRE73E2I920110415\" target=\"_blank\">seems to be agreeing<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>In a document from Friday&#8217;s meeting obtained by Reuters, Merkel and her ministers laid out a six-point plan that includes a 5 billion-euro credit programme to support renewables.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>It will also require building new gas and coal plants, Merkel said. &#8220;<strong>Gas and coal power plants were discussed&#8230; an accelerated exit from nuclear energy will lead to replacement power stations<\/strong>,&#8221; she said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why? So they can get rid of nuclear power&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is about as stupid an idea as to say that in order to prevent paper cuts to your finger you should cut off your arms!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sure&#8230; you achieve what you aimed for&#8230; but did you <strong>really<\/strong> concider the side effects before you took a knife and started carving?<\/p>\n<p>Diese dummen Deutschen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, now it is official: Germany has gone batshit crazy. Power firms should invest massively in coal and gas-fired power technology and renewable energy sources,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/german-economy-minister-to-prevent-paper-cuts-we-must-cut-off-our-arms\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">German economy minister: &#8220;To prevent paper cuts, we must cut off our arms&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,15,57,254],"tags":[526,690,132,523,376,377,522,525,524,4,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7188,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/7188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearpoweryesplease.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}