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(1) The tax payer.

(2) The electricity grid.

I do hope they don't force it on gas stations. Make it voluntary and give them subsidies instead.



1) And how exactly is that energy generated? 2) Will the grid be swamped because the utopia of "green energy" can't keep up with the additions to the grid?


Since the summer months see the highest traffic on the Autobahn due to school holidays and vacation, this might actually be a clever solution to store surplus "green energy" into car batteries instead of letting it go to waste ;)


1. Currently it's about 50/50 for renewable vs fossil fuels. However the trend is that renewables are growing and fossil fuel usage (mostly coal) is declining. You can see some cool graphs on the Wikipedia page for energy in Germany

2. No


All numbers we have are not supporting those claims.


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He probably gets downvoted because he's not discussing in good faith.




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