Australia is exactly the same.
In 10 years there were 7 different Prime Minsters.
The leaders spend all their time bickering about who is in charge instead of actually doing anything.
In Australia they're calling it an "Energy Crisis", which is a complete lie.
Australia has a leadership crisis that has resulted in a crisis of basically everything else.
I find it insane that a country with as much natural resources, plus unlimited sunshine and space for wind farms has such high energy prices.
It’s also why I’m not sold on electric cars. I’d hate to suddenly be unable to charge it. If someone is really serious about CO2 emissions we need to transform the economy to be reliant on electricity not oil, and the only way to do that is drive the price down close to zero.
Especially worrying for me is the push to get everything on electricity. Only to then do rolling blackouts, or turn things off selectively so energy providers can fleece end users with price hikes.
Alas everyone is only interested in the next 4 years so there is little vision.
Have you ever wondered why they're called pumps when you go to the gas station?
They're electric pumps. All the diesel or petroleum you're imagining you can use instead because you were "not sold on electric cars" isn't going anywhere if the electricity is off.
Admittedly they could change the laws around this. I would love to be able to use a car as my battery as well when I need power overnight.
The short term concerns you bring up are valid but at the same time to expect to shift from an oil based world to an electricity based world seamlessly is asking a lot.
And yet in a country with as much sun and coastline as Australia, electricity prices are set to double in the coming months.
Why? Profits.
It doesn't even have a unified government, and until that changes all kinds of expensive self-harming nonsense is inevitable.
Countries are a tribal indulgence - which is becoming increasingly unaffordable.