By P Gosselin on 22. March 2022
Germany is saying “auf Wiedersehen” to plentiful and cheap energies and welcoming tight supplies and rationing.
Unless they radically change course, German policymakers will soon be closing the remaining nuclear power plants by the end of the year and coal-fired power plants will be phased out over the coming 15 years.
To make matters worse, European policymakers are moving to phase out fossil fuel powered cars and to replace them with e-vehicles, thus leading to skyrocketing electricity demand precisely when supply is being choked off. Experts warn of blackouts and hyperinflationary energy prices.
Moreover, Europe is moving to profoundly restrict its supply of natural gas from Russia. All these measures taken together are certain to lead to unprecedented energy shortages over the coming years. Therefore, it’s little wonder the government is now scrambling to make plans to ration natural gas when the disastrous shortages arrive.
Government contingency plans now being drawn up
“The government is having a contingency plan drawn up to determine which companies should first stop receiving gas when Russian natural gas fails to arrive,” reports Blackout News.de here. “A corresponding emergency plan is being prepared under the auspices of the Federal Network Agency.”
The plan envisions “consumption caps” on companies, “depending on their size and consumption”.
According to Blackout News: “This would mean that industrial companies with high consumption would be the first to be cut off from gas supplies.”
Eastern and Southern Germany would be hardest hit
Although Germany could import gas from Norway and the Netherlands, it would be would be difficult to transport the gas to the east and south of Germany. “Therefore, industrial plants in these regions would likely be the first to run out of natural gas in the event of a shortage,” writes Blackout News.
The plan is reported to involve classifying companies in order to determine their system relevance. “For example, companies in the food industry should be ranked differently from companies that manufacture products such as tires or glass,” reports Blackout News.
Downgrading to an organic-agrarian country of peasants
Should Germany continue on with their draconian energy throttling policies, companies are soon going to realize (if they haven’t already) that doing industrial business in the country will be far too risky and expensive. It is increasingly likely they will move their operations elsewhere.
In the meantime, Germany will rapidly move down the world economic rankings until it becomes a marginal organic-agrarian nation where even hot water and red meat will be luxuries.
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I’ve always admired the German’s amazing engineering ability. Over the past century and more a lot of wonder machinery has come out of Germany. So where are all the German engineers who should be saying en masse that closing down the fossil fuel industry is going to close down German engineering businesses? Or maybe they’ve taken the wrong coloured pill.
The Germans will only be caught in the dark: if a Kiev-aligned axis sabotages the pipeline, if Germans recycle their ill conceived adoption of intermittent/renewable Green blight transition, or environmentalists/activists/lobbyists force progressive prices, availability, and affordability in order to depress the market.
Hard to believe the German government is imposing something very like the Morgenthau Plan from WW2 on itself.
Memo from D.C.
“The plan is reported to involve classifying companies in order to determine their system relevance.”
So, rationing.
The Renewable Energy Fail
a very good John Stosell video- he mentions Germany
Meanwhile 100 billion Euro for NATO arms – made in the USA, which Trump always wanted. No NordStream2 Russian gas. Now 40,000 US troops flying in to parade al round with no limit on diesel.
So it is not the Morganthau Plan, just colonialism.
Some prominent politicos campaigned on being ‘in-sync’ with D.C. – voters are seeing their country synchronized into a vassal Green Reset freezing region.
Panic as NordStream1 could be stopped, and it is simply amazing Ukraine gas infrastructure continues to function. Payment from now on in Rubles only.
Well then according to you the EU has two choices be a colony of USA or Russia … take your pick.
Colonialism is past its use-by-date, a fossil of millennia of subservience, mostly by European imperial powers.
That the US, the first colonial break-out in 1783, is attempting a parody of the British Empire, is a howler. It is a spectacle to behold!
Bonbon, last century there were two great wars. In both of them, the US learned that if it sits by and does nothing to help its allies in Europe, evil spreads unimpeded. What the US is doing is not colonialism– that word means nothing anymore since the very people accusing every corner of Western society of colonialism are themselves also colonizing. The US is protecting its allies and its interests. And that is not colonialism nor is it wrong.
Merkel will be remembered for this for a very long time .
Trump implied Putin would use energy as a weapon.
Russia did not.
Russia is sound.
Now that is funny
Germany have shelled out 3-4 billion to Russia for gas in the last month and will now have to pay in rubles.
“Downgrading to an organic-agrarian country of peasants” is what The Leader wanted to do to Eastern Europe back in the day. Oh the irony.
“As Energy System Comes Apart, Germany Now Preparing Emergency Natural Gas Rationing Plans”
This headline just kills me. As energy system comes apart! What a joke. The energy system is in trouble but is not coming apart, it is intentionally being dismantled. Then the crackpots who dismantled it act all surprised when they have no energy. These people are criminals, the only thing worse is the crackpots who put them in power.
Russia just announced it wants payment in rubles for gas and oil contracts against unfriendly countries.
https://www.rt.com/business/552554-ruble-rockets-gas-currency-switch/
Which means breach of contract.
Contracts include what type of currency must be used for payment. Most all international contracts, there are exceptions, require payment in US dollars. They can change the requirement in future contracts, but cannot do so legally in existing contracts.
If they do, they will be in breach of contract. Buyers need the fuels, so they will comply. But their next step will be to file lawsuits for damages incurred because of the breach. They would clearly win, and any Russian assets in the country of the lawsuit could be seized and sold to pay the damages.
And the long term lesson learned will be that contracts with Russia are worthless.
Interruptablè gas supply tariffs are quite normal for large business users, they pay less for their gas on the basis that if there is a gas shortage then they will be cut off.
They will have invested in equipment with dual fuel arrangements (normally oil, as it can be stored) and the business case makes economic sense.
if only they had invested more in solar
This is progress according to the Progressives. No thank you.
There is plenty of undeveloped gas resources in Lower Saxony, immediately adjacent to the Netherland’s Groningen gas field. I can’t believe they would resort to cutoffs and not encourage drilling on that acreage, much of it controlled by Exxon-Mobil,