Essay by Eric Worrall
German landlords can now turn down living area thermostats without tenants permission, thanks to Germany’s failed Energiewende programme, and Germany’s complete failure to plan for contingencies.
“EVERY CONTRIBUTION COUNTS”
Close the doors, turn off the lights, turn down the heating – these energy-saving rules will apply to private individuals and companies from September
08/24/2022, 16:55
New energy-saving measures will apply in Germany from September 1st. The cabinet passed a corresponding ordinance, which stipulates, for example, that retailers keep the doors of their shops closed and that monuments are no longer illuminated. An overview.
Starting next Thursday, numerous energy-saving regulations will apply in Germany : Shop doors must not be left open all the time, neon signs must go out after 10 p.m., and monuments must not be illuminated. At the workplace, a room temperature of 19 degrees Celsius should be sufficient, in public buildings the corridors remain cold. Additional regulations are scheduled to come into force on October 1.
On Wednesday, the cabinet passed two regulations based on the Energy Security Act, which are intended to save energy both in this heating season and in the coming ones. The first regulation applies from September 1st for six months, i.e. until February 28th.
Contract clauses in leases about a certain temperature are suspended for the six months. Tenants who want to save energy and turn down the heating should also be allowed to do so, as the Ministry of Economic Affairs explained.
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Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) said after the cabinet meeting that the measures could save two to two and a half percent of energy consumption in Germany. That is “not so much that we can lean back” – the federal government’s savings target for winter is 20 percent.
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Read more: https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/energiesparen–diese-massnahmen-gelten-ab-september-fuer-privatleute-und-firmen-32661296.html
This will not be the last of Germany’s draconian energy saving measures. Green Party member, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck admits this energy rationing plan only saves 2.5% of the 20% energy reduction target the German government believes is required to prevent a winter blackout. I doubt anybody in Germany knows how they will achieve the rest of the 20% cut.
10 new nuclear plants could have saved Germany from all this hardship – each existing nuclear plant contributes around 2% of Germany’s energy needs, so as a rough estimate, 10 additional plants would have made up the 20% energy shortfall. Nuclear power plants only have to be refuelled every two years, so a decent nuclear programme could have completely shielded ordinary Germans and the German economy from fuel availability and price problems.
If Germany had enough reactor capacity, all the uranium reactor fuel Germany would have needed to make up their energy shortfall could have been delivered well before winter, from a friendly country like Australia. Highly radioactive nuclear waste needs careful handling, but Uranium fuel transport is much more straightforward, the radioactivity is low enough than it can be transported in regular shipping containers. Since nuclear fuel contains a million times more energy than fossil fuel, stockpiling enough nuclear fuel for winter energy needs would have been easily achievable.
But German politicians rejected the zero carbon nuclear option, and bet everything on their failed Energiewende renewable energy plans, while ignoring well meaning advice from politicians like President Trump, that Russia is an untrustworthy energy partner.
Imagine what will happen if there is a Covid or Flu outbreak this winter in Germany, with millions of ordinary people shivering in cold, energy rationed apartments, with energy too expensive to use for heating, even if the electricity or gas is available.
Of course no German politician or high ranking official is likely to suffer from cold this winter, they always seem to take care of themselves first. It is ordinary Germans who will pay for the stupidity and arrogance of their leaders.
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Serves ’em right to suffer.
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
Edmund Burke, Letter i. On a Regicide Peace. Vol. v. p. 331.
Willie Nelson said it best, “Turn out the lights, the party’s over.”
Well, only for those that embrace the meme that “green, renewable” energy sources can actually replace fossil fuels to power modern civilization.
For those holding a different view—that mankind’s emissions from burning fossil fuels have an insignificant effect of Earth’s climate—“Laissez les bons temps rouler!”
One of these days, the peasants may appear at the tyrant’s castle with pitchforks and torches. Those scenarios tend to end poorly for all concerned.
That’s so old-school, Shoki. In the future it will be body armor and firearms.
Creeping humidity into a home in cold weather is a sure killer. It also encourages the growth of mold and mildew. It seems that the Greens and left wing in general are just wanting to make life miserable for billions world wide.
More like, they want to make the continuation of life impossible for billions worldwide.
Look at what Germany (and the UK) have done to themselves, and look at what impact it has had on the climate.
Has there been _any_ reporting in MSM indicating that anything we’ve inflicted on ourselves has made the slightest difference to the climate? Here in NZ the alarmist reports about ‘Climate Change’ have never been more feverish.
Check out the graphs of global CO2 concentrations – no sign that anything we’ve done over the last few decades has had _any_ impact on CO2 levels.
Serious question – is it going to take violence to get our idiot leaders to see sense?
French yellow vests, Dutch farmers, Canadian truckers & etc. U.S. inner cities may have to be nuked if welfare goodie supplies are disrupted.
There’s gonna be a whole lotta chilly Europeans this winter. Might be time for that old Beatles song to become real: ‘You say you want a revolution..?’ Or maybe ‘Power to the People?’
Or: “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”, by Billie Holiday
German investors helped finance NS2. NS2 was fully ready, willing, and able to begin deliveries BEFORE anything happened in Ukraine. Germany postponed licensing NS2 for months BEFORE Putin’s action. Obviously, there were political shenanigans going on that held up the licensing. It was not technical. Could it be that the wind and solar interests had anything to do with it? Germany definitely has “issues”.
Correct. The politics began with Nordstram2, with President Trump in the lead. Then Germany led the NS2 politics. Then Germany and the US placed harsh sanctions on Russia. Forcing Gazprom to demand payments in Rubles. Which the German government told private companies they did not want — abandon Russian energy sources as soon as possible. And Putin seems to be interfering with Gazprom, who wants to sell as much gas as possible for Rubles — but demand is already down 50%, even though LNG is more expensive. Demand will be down 100% when alternative suppliers can be found for Germany.
This all adds up to political interference in free trade
Russia has the gas and the pipelines to move it.
Germany needs to import gas from somewhere
Both governments are fighting with each other while the people sgffer.
Where have I heard that story before
Meanwhile the Russian Ukraine War continues.
A statement without any supporting evidence.
Not even when a French minister promised “la guerre totale” against Russia, total war, a Reich III reference BTW, did Russia did nor suggested any energy related retaliation.