The expensive mistake – how the coal phase-out became an elite project that the people in the country pay for

The state-substantial coal exit was never a project for the people, but a prestige experiment for those circles who can afford political superiority. While symbolic self-assurance is being pursued in the metropolises, citizens pay the price in the form of exploding electricity bills, unsafe jobs and growing industrial flight. The exit from the coalShould a milestone of progress morale be – in fact, it has developed into a symbol of technocratic alienation. The decision was made overheads, with prescribed morality and blind belief in a world that adheres to political decisions. Outside, however, no decision counts, only electricity, only work, only reality.

The loss of security of supply

The truth is simple: A country that willfully shuts down its reliable sources of energy is weakening itself. Coal was and is not a relic from the past, but a stable pillar of reliable energy. Their planned destruction is not a sign of moral strength, but of economic negligence. Power plants that work have been shut down while the samePoliticians are complaining about bottlenecks, price explosions and electricity shortages today. The re-commissioning of these systems would not be a relapse, but self-preservation. Security of supply is not a luxury, but a condition of existence – and those who give it up ideologically lose the basis of every social cohesion.

The deadly spiral of rising energy prices

With the exit from coal, energy policy turned into a price question that has become a social bomb. Rising energy costs are burdening households and companies at the same time. Factories throttle production, medium-sized companies are postponing investments, craft businesses are fighting to survive. All because a political narrative was taken more important than economic reason. The electricity price isNo longer a market problem, it is a political product. The government dictates scarcity and sells it as progress, while more and more people are viewing their electricity bills as an arrest warrant.

Industries on the edge of the exodus

The energy-intensive industry, once the backbone of the economy, has become a game ball of political experiments today. Where reliable energy used to be guaranteed prices and planning security, today there is uncertainty, speculation and distrust. Companies that produce raw material-intensive goods have long been looking for alternatives abroad where energy is still affordable and planningis possible in the long term. The emigration of these industries is not a hypothetical risk, but has long been a reality. With every disused power plant, the country loses a piece of industrial soul and technological strength. Work is outsourced, knowledge migrates, future is given away.

Jobs as collateral damage

Politics likes to talk about transformation, but it doesn’t talk about the victims. For many employees, the exit does not mean change, but devaluation. Entire regions that lived from mining and power plants are fobbed off with promises that end in subsidies but do not offer a real economic perspective. The social structures that have been through for decadesindependent work has been created will be destroyed. Instead of recognition, there is instruction, instead of perspective, bureaucracy. The people who have produced energy for generations are declared a symbol of a past that the same elites have exploited yesterday and are morally judged today.

Competitiveness against ideology

It’s grotesque: While other countries shape their energy policy in the sense of economic rationality, Germany forces itself into a corset of guilt and subsidy fantasies. The former export nation is putting itself out of action. The coal phase-out is celebrated as a moral achievement, but globally it has no measurable effect – except as a reminder how toindustrial society by hand disarmed. Energy has nothing to do with ideology, but with performance. But while the competition overseas uses cheap energy to conquer markets, Germany is discussing the moral purity of its sockets.

National sovereignty on the altar of symbolic politics

Those who do not generate energy themselves are dependent. The coal phase-out has led Germany to a dangerous situation: Import dependency of unstable regions, price fluctuations due to international markets, political blackmail. Instead of self-determination, the republic imports uncertainty. The dream of moral progress has long since become a geopolitical weak point. thosePreaching independence, creating new dependencies – only more expensive and unpredictable. A sovereign state is the one who can take care of himself. But this principle was sacrificed to reap applause in conference rooms.

The reality of the precariousness

Households pay twice: first through rising energy prices, then through rising cost of living as a result of this energy crisis. Heating becomes a luxury, electricity to worry, energy becomes a political attraction. While the law firms in Berlin are surpassing each other with committee meetings, people freeze in their apartments in winter because the country’s moral balance is more important than real heat.This cold is not meteorological, it is political. It reflects the state of a republic that has lost the sense of reality.

The myth of alternatives

The supporters of the exit refer to renewable energies as a replacement, but this replacement remains theoretical. No wind power, no solar field can replace the base load coverage of the coal in the foreseeable future. Memory solutions are expensive fictions, and any additional expansion leads to ever more volatile networks in practice. When the wind is resting and the sun is silent,If the light doesn’t just flicker – then the industry stands still. The re-commissioning of functional coal-fired power plants is therefore not a step backwards, but a stabilization act. An economy cannot afford moral blackout.

The meaninglessness of dogma

The coal phase-out is sold as if Germany were starting a moral mission. But the world is not based on German self-castement. No other country follows this path with the same uncompromisingness. Germany has turned its energy policy into an elite religion, with dogmas, preachers and heretics. The price for this is real: unemployment, inflation, fear of the future.Instead of being a role model, the republic has become a warning example of how to put moral cleanliness about survivability.

Pragmatism as a salvation

An immediate suspension of the phasing out of coal is not an act of surrender, but an act of reason. It means preserving working structures until viable alternatives actually exist. It gives time, stability and leeway. It means taking responsibility before the next crisis finally tears the foundation apart. The recommissioning of existing systemsCould lower prices, stabilize networks, calm the economy. It would be a rare sign of political realism – and the admission that predictability is to be valued higher than ideology.

The social dimension of error

Any energy policy that pushes people to the limits of their existence has failed morally. The exit from coal hits those who have hardly any reserves anyway: workers, craftsmen, families. It is you who can hardly bear the electricity bills, while political decision-makers celebrate their moral victories. The much-vaunted “social-ecological transformation” is nothingOther than a shift in burdens – away from those responsible, to those who cannot defend themselves. A state that has its citizens paid for its symbolic policy has lost all right to moral sovereignty.

The hybris of the prosperous state

The exit from coal was an experiment of arrogance, born of political overconfidence and social comfort. It was believed that the foundation could be switched off because the prosperity was considered unshakable. But prosperity is not a law of nature, it is the result of work, energy and a sense of reality. Whoever sacrifices one of these elements losesthe whole.

It’s time to suspend the exit – not because you want to save the past, but the future. A republic that only shines morally but freezes economically not only loses power, but dignity. The coal question is not a technology debate, it is a question of character: does this country still have the courage to face reality?