German energy policy in the last 25 years

The author looks into the question as to how the glut of state interventions on energy markets, often blocking one another, could come about. He examines the coal market, the oil market and the electricity and gas market, pointing out the contradictions from which our nuclear policy is suffering. Everywhere the same picture: The energy policy of the last 25 years is neither oriented towards market economy, nor has it been successful. It is running dry in granting privileges to a few established enterprises at the expense of the general public by making a glut of short-winded interventions which are desperate and moreover, blocking one another. (orig./HSCH)