Sorry, Gargamel, but in Germany we have the absurd situaiton that the electricity becomes the more coslty for the end consumer the more renewable energy gets rpodcued. That is thanks to the absurd, even selfdamaging subsidies for it. Producers get the more subvention per Wh the more of it they produce.
This also has another implication. Take away the subsidies, and you have an energy system that is not only more unstable and causes problems beyond Geraman border in all of Europe, but that also is not comptetitve. It cannot live without subsidies. Additonally we need to buy electricty from neighbourign country who produce it in these nasty nuclear blocks that Gemans hate so much. Nuclear blocks that are older and more dnageorus than the ones in Germany that we took off the grid becasue the Fukushima flooding was spilling through our German streets.
And then there is the nastiness of Lithium mining, but that is a dirty story for itself, I save myself from telling it.
To point out at these quite well-known - but unwanted - facts, does not automatically make you a lobbyist of the combustion engine car industry. It simply is plain reason. And maybe you do not know how much mney gets destroyed and how amny big projects get slammed right aganst the wall in Germany right because of the cluelessness and incompetence of politicians who mistake ideology with circumstances in reality. The "energy turn" in Germany - reminds me of the BER airport, really: years after years of delay, costs explodingand mltiplying, no improvements, and rising doubts that the thing can ever be used. And when it will be used in 2020 or 2021, its capacity will already be far behind the demand. Th comonies not working there, earn formidable profits by the thing beign what it is: an endless milking opportunity. Thats how the German revolution works, too.
Lats time I checked, oil prices was low and falling, btw. The follow-on costs of a fossile-dribve industrx are there, yes. But so are the implicit and the follow-on costs of e-industrialization and battery production. It just collides with Green ideology, and that is why the narration is so unwelcomed by most people.
Ethanol from plants: farmign soil globally is in decline, need for food production is raising however, due to exploding global population levels. It may work nationalyl in a big country like Brazil - for Europe, it is no alternative. Also it needs a huge effort in right the opposite of ecologic/bio farming: you need industrial intensive farming and the ethical willingness to see many people straving to death who cannot eat the food that gets not planted and harvested on these fields.
Renewable energy priruction sees a lot of nsolved - and even growing! - problems over here. And it becomes more and more costly since ten years, from year to year. Nobody else in Europe pays so much for electricity, than the Germans.
And despite the raise in renewables, latest studies tell us that we have not really reduced Germany's emission footprint in this time.
Fauler Zauber.
But hey, nobody forces you not to sink your money into a hopelessly overpriced e-car that looses its value due to battery develoment faster than you can say "what, really?" Loose money, and feel well!
