#26: Germany's energy mess

High prices, failed climate targets. How did we get here?

Autoland Deutschland is still a country of petrolheads. "Porsche 911" by fragment.fi, CC BY 2.0.

German energy policy is a mess.

Obviously, we’re not the only country scrambling to do something about rising fuel prices right now — but here policymakers have done a particularly bad job — for decades.

Both left and right have been guided by particular ideolo…