The real cost of getting rid of fossil fuels across Europe may well be masked by years and years of future investment into previously job-rich coal mining and coal plant towns. The real cost of eliminating coal from Germany for instance has yet to be determined, but another €40 billion was added to the costs this week. None of this is law yet, but the sharp minded German government, led by Angela Merkel, has drafted a plan which is designed to become law, but which a new government, at present, could always back away from. The law will push state aid of €40 billion over 5 years to four regions of Germany, two of which are in the old East…