There is no point in introducing a CO2 tax unless the government provides actual alternatives that consumers can switch to.

And, no, wind and solar and battery-electric vehicles are not viable alternatives. Solar and wind require backup plants and EVs have inadequate practical use and cause much more CO2 emissions during production.

If you want to effectively decarbonise as an industrial nation, the first path to be taken must be nuclear.

Thanks to nuclear, the emissions in the French energy sector are just 1/7 of Germany’s despite the latter having 50% solar and wind.

Moreover, the nuclear phase out causes Germany to build new natural gas plants: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Mediathek/Berich... (p. 66).

I don't understand the use of apocryphal in this context