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Germany Finally Admits Trump Was Right About Energy

Back in 2018, President Trump warned Germany in a U.N. speech that it would become completely dependent on Russia for energy if it didn't correct course on their green energy agenda. The German delegation laughed at him at the time, but by 2022, the nation was facing an energy crisis, forced to increase coal usage to save on natural gas.

More recently, a terrorist-caused power outage in Berlin was made even more dangerous by the country's green energy policies. One of the most insane policies the nation adopted was the phasing out of clean, abundant, affordable nuclear energy. They were warned about undoing that part of their energy infrastructure, and did it anyway.

Now German Chancellor Friedrich Merz regrets that, calling it a "serious strategic mistake."

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called Berlin’s exit from nuclear energy a "serious strategic mistake" and criticized previous governments for hastily shutting down the country's last atomic reactors.

Speaking at a business conference in Saxony-Anhalt late Wednesday, Merz directed sharp criticism at the energy policies of his predecessors, including former Chancellor Angela Merkel, for creating the world's costliest energy transition.

"It was a serious strategic mistake to exit nuclear energy," Merz said. "If you were going to do it, you should have at least kept the last remaining nuclear power plants in Germany on the grid three years ago, so that we would have had the same electricity generation capacity.”

He added: "We're now making the most expensive energy transition in the entire world. I don't know of a second country that makes it as difficult and as expensive for itself as Germany does. We set ourselves a goal that we now have to correct, but we simply don't have enough energy generation capacity.”

During last year's election campaign, Merz heavily criticized the Green Party for pursuing what he called "ideologically motivated" energy policy, calling it inefficient and too expensive. Rather than advocating for a return to conventional nuclear operations, he argued that Germany should explore new-generation nuclear technology – specifically, small modular reactors.

But the Greens are still in power, still making life miserable for their lessers:

Germany forces Lexus to remotely turn off car warm-up function over environmental impact: Report

German authorities forced Toyota's luxury brand Lexus vehicles to remotely turn off the car heating warm-up system due to its environmental impact, German daily Bild reported Wednesday.

Auxiliary climate control has also been abruptly turned off for thousands of other Toyota and Lexus drivers, according to the report.

The move drew disappointment and confusion online. In 2025, the company sold more than 100,000 vehicles in Germany alone. The deactivation affects the majority of these, although it also affects previous model years.

The parking pre-heating feature, which was previously available for free through the MyToyota or Lexus Link Plus applications, has been disabled on combustion-engine vehicles throughout Germany, according to Toyota spokesman Ralph Muller.

Toyota disabled the feature "to protect the vehicle user from fines," as lawmakers view remote engine warm-up as "unnecessary running" that produces "avoidable exhaust pollution."