According to this article in the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the European Union Energy Commissioner removed figures about subsidies to fossil and nuclear industries from the new energy subsidy report out of his office.
The K-Landnews Random Research team had on numerous occasions brought up other reports about seemingly incoherent subsidy figures. For instance, this Greenpeace press release from two months ago said that subsidies for nuclear and coal were more than twice as high as for renewables.
A superficial search of the web on the positions and proclamations of the EU energy commissioner shows a man on a mission, lamenting exorbitantly high subsidies to the green energy sector on every occasion.
The commissioner, Mr. Oettinger, seems to be a very colorful man. He appears to be one of the breed of German career politicians who have all the energy, mostly of the fossil kind, ever needed to bulldoze on.
When Greenpeace or a newspaper points out that out of a total of 130 billion Euros in subsidies per year only 30 billion go into green energy, they miss the low key, behind the scene efforts of Mr. Oettinger to help save energy.
Take the upcoming EU report as put onto Google by the newspaper.
Removing all the text in red means savings, real, tangible savings! EU reports get printed on high gloss, heavy paper in more languages than you can shake a stick at, then they get shipped out to all four or however many corners of the European Union.
Shortening a report by ten percent means less energy used in authoring, less energy used in production and shipping, and less energy used in reading the report.
So, give the man some carbon credit.
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