Germany's Energie Wende Looking More and More Like Das Ende

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Germany has killed off its country by believing the climate crazy unicorns that renewables can supply its needs.  Now it is reopening its coal plants in order to survive and not freeze in the cold.  And industry has shut down.

Germany's Energie Wende Looking More and More Like Das Ende
Beege Welborn | February 12, 2026
   
These figures coming out of Germany and the government's reaction to them are reminding me more and more of the German command bunker scene in Patton. The one where the shelling is causing the ceiling to collapse as frantic German generals, officers, and aides try to burn documents and plans before Patton's Army marches into Berlin. And the one German officer who has been Patton's profiler the whole time is staring at his picture and says something like, 'Das ist das Ende. Das Ende,' which basically translates to 'This is it, muchachos.'

And then he drops Patton's portrait into the wastebasket bonfire he has going.

That's pretty much where Germany is right now, only it's a dumpster fire of immense proportions.

At the end of January, I told y'all how Germany needed to light candles for a warm February because their natural gas stores, which were already in a less than optimum state going into winter, had been drawn down to dangerous levels in many regions by repeated Siberian cold waves washing back over the northern part of Europe.

The German government was doing its best imitation of an ostrich as stockpiles shrank.

Germany’s Natural Gas Crisis Escalates … One Storage Site Near Empty …Government Silent

Germany’s shift to green energy has really turned into a nightmare.

It’s the dead of winter and already the first heating gas storage facility in Germany is near empty, only 6% full!

Germany desperately needs to pray for a warm February miracle if the country is to avoid an energy disaster and a state of emergency. https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/02/12/germanys-energie-wende-looking-more-and-more-like-das-ende-n3811845

[DB]

Competent engineers could have easily predicted that going green was going to cause major energy shortages and economic destruction.

The politicians charged ahead believing they could override reality. Reality always wins.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Competent engineers could have easily predicted that going green was going to cause major energy shortages and economic destruction.

The politicians charged ahead believing they could override reality. Reality always wins.

[Bigun]

Competent engineers could have easily predicted that going green was going to cause major energy shortages and economic destruction.

The politicians charged ahead believing they could override reality. Reality always wins.

Many did exactly that in fact! The media simply refused to report their findings.

[DefiantMassRINO]

It's rudimentary economic supply and demand.

They withdrew net supply such that demand could not be met.  Scarcity creates value (increases prices).  Too much scarcity creates shortages and economic disruption.

The Greens are also anti-Capitalists who don't bother to learn math and economics.  To them, Government is a magic wizard that can instantiate anything, at any time, on demand, from nothing ... except other people's money and property.