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by rogers12 1381 days ago
Using the energy policy to stay elected instead of keeping her people from freezing to death isn't exactly to Merkel's credit.
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Nobody is freezing to death, please leave the hyperbolic arguments aside it doens't add anything to the discussion. If she hadn't won the elections then the nuclear plants would definitely have been gone. Her staying in power was the better opportunity to retain nuclear. It still wouldn't have mattered much for heating though, since gas is one of the main uses for heating homes in Germany.