Mercedes-Benz 170V Holzvergaser. At least, in those days during and immediately after the war, people in Germany clearly saw just how inadequate alternative sources of energy were.
Summing up Germany's rushed shift to renewable energy, a commentator at NoTrickZone writes:
At least the old-style 5-year-plans were aimed at heavy industrial production and modernization; and after the “Thaw” there were pockets of the so-called “Goulash communism” to provide at least a minimum of poultry and vegetables (in 1962, the “dachas” comprised 3% of the USSR’s agriculture and supplied 50% of the victuals). This sounds more like the Great Leap Forward with local windmills instead of backyard smelting yards, backed up by AGW instead of Lysenkoism, with Arcadia as the new collectivist paradise.
From the below report on the forcible transformation of the energy supply system, get an idea of the totalitarian habits mushrooming all over Germany under the aegis of environmental alarmism:
Germany’s energy transformation has already failed. For Germans, the outlook is bleak. …the planned mismanagement is heavily damaging the economy and will fail spectacularly some years later because its economic and social costs will have become unbearable. The question remaining open is how many billions of euros will have to be destroyed before a new energy policy (a new energy transformation?) picks up the shattered pieces.
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