Not just Elon Musk. Me too! I also said it was crazy for Germany to shut down its nuclear power stations!
But seriously, folks. It was blindingly obvious that it was a crazy decision. Even to a midwit like me, sitting in Hong Kong. Let alone to a quixotic genius like Elon in America. But German politicians and bureaucrats did it anyway. And are now suffering.
Why did they do it? One word: Greens. The Greens are so wildly, so obsessively and I must say, so ignorantly anti clean-green-safe nuclear power and they have been so influential over such a long time in Germany, that they overrode common sense and science. They threw 25% of Germany's clean, green, safe and cheap nuclear power into the bin.
The same is true in Australia. We have abundant uranium resources. We are quite happy to export it. But we refuse, by law, to use it ourselves. Sheer insanity. All our Green bodies are against it. Challenged that their views are ideological and out-of-date, they respond with ideological and out-of-date diatribes.
In Australia too, being anti-nuclear energy is “total madness”. [Though, of course, it's seen as being a virtue by most on the Left].
Elon Musk warned Germany in 2022 about shutting down their nuclear power plants
He called it "total madness" years before the current crisis peaked
"It’s crazy to shut down nuclear power plants... especially if you are in a place where there are no natural disasters" — Elon Musk
Germany shut them all down anyway in 2023
And now the consequences have become undeniable:
- Energy prices skyrocketed with German households paying the highest electricity bills in the EU in 2025.
- The grid became increasingly unreliable
- Germany is now burning billions in subsidies just to keep the lights on - money that wouldn't be needed if they'd listened
Now, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has officially admitted that the nuclear phase-out was a "huge mistake" and a "serious strategic error" that left the country without enough generation capacity
What's even worse is that the exact same EU bureaucrats who pushed for the shutdowns are now actively campaigning to build MORE nuclear power plants
Elon was right. Again
