> Fuckin' WHOOPS. I'll forgive you, though. You're new to this whole "evidence" thing. You didn't realise that you have to actually read and understand your sources. Next!

I forgot I was talking to someone with no understanding of energy economics.

Energy is very much tied to GDP. While Denmark and Germany do tax energy sources and use them the reinvest in renewables (your preference for energy policies), it does result in "energy poverty" and that is extremely harmful to the people who have to make decisions between heat and food.

https://consensus.app/details/findings-show-energy-poverty-reduce-product-li/057bfa1671495af7bf30a04b7e38fcf8/

Why is this important to price of renewables? Well, they have failed to replace baseline energy sources and germany is closing business sectors due to high energy costs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-07/german-aluminum-smelter-halves-output-on-soaring-energy-costs

As a result, germany is actually closing down wind farms and opening coal mines

https://balkangreenenergynews.com/wind-farm-in-germany-is-being-dismantled-to-expand-coal-mine/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/10/28/the-iron-law-of-electricity-strikes-again-germany-re-opens-five-lignite-fired-power-plants/?sh=3f0be3d73d0c

So in general, yeah, you can make your population suffer while you follow green energy policies that hurt that population some more. Its a political and ideological decision.