The AKW runtime extension has three winners and one loser

Nuclear power plant Isar 2

The majority of the population wanted the three nuclear power plants to remain connected to the grid for a limited period.

(Photo: dpa)

The chancellor turned a corner at the last minute. With a word of power, Olaf Scholz ended the nagging dispute between the FDP and the Greens about extending the lifetime of nuclear power plants. The Emsland power plant is also scheduled to run in 2023. The majority of citizens and the economy would not have understood it if the continued operation of the remaining nuclear power plants had been talked into a formula compromise by the SPD, Greens and FDP.

After the chancellor’s double boom, now the nuclear boom, which knows three winners and one big loser.

The winners include, firstly, business and citizens. If sensible crisis policy is the benchmark for good government action, the coalition must connect everything that does not use gas but produces electricity to the grid. This is the only way companies can get through the winter. Avoid big city blackouts.

Saving gas helps above all income groups who cannot afford the expensive prices. The majority of the population wanted the three nuclear power plants to remain connected to the grid for a limited period anyway. The family entrepreneurs even took to the streets for it. Scholz has now taken the simple economic truth into account: Deliberately burning expensive gas for electricity production is nonsense.

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Election slippers have caused the FDP to rethink

The second winner is FDP leader Christian Lindner – even if the Federal Minister of Finance actually wanted to run all three nuclear power plants until 2024. After four election defeats this year, he could not have expected any further concessions from his own base. 300 billion new debts and then to embark on an energy policy adventure with the Greens, that would have been too much.

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Lindner’s repeated reference to the state’s political responsibility for not enforcing common sense in the coalition would have been exhausted. The economy had high hopes for the FDP in the traffic light. The expulsion of the liberals from the Lower Saxony state parliament has apparently brought about a rethink.

Third winner is the Chancellor. Olaf Scholz seemed powerless the whole time. Not like a head of government who recently proclaimed the turning point and the double boom. Scholz claims: Anyone who orders a tour from me will get it too. He underlined this again with the clap for the Greens. The coming days and weeks will show how this is received, especially by the Greens.

Against the crisis with money and washcloths

The losers are the Greens, who wanted to put their party interests before those of the country. With the use of the policy competence, the Greens’ decision from the weekend to shut down the Emsland nuclear power plant at the end of the year is wasted

Economics Minister Robert Habeck bowed down in front of the sheikhs, burned lignite and heavy oil. But when it comes to a party congress decision, he abruptly stops the path to reality. He recommends that citizens continue to take a short shower or, like his Green colleague Winfried Kretschmann, use the washcloth right away.

The rest is then thrown in with money, and in 2023 Ludwig Erhard’s successor wanted to see more. Habeck and the Greens could not simply run three nuclear power plants, as Greta Thunberg recommends. The chancellor’s courageous word of power was needed.

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