By P Gosselin on 6. September
Germany needs an energy Marshall Plan
Consumers are now having to endure the excruciating economic pain of the country’s intensifying energy crisis – brought on by decades of botched green energy policy and heavy reliance on Russian gas.
Gas bills have already multiplied
According to Blackout News here, 21 million German households heat with natural gas and are now “threatened with exorbitantly high additional payments for their gas, already most bills have multiplied.”
German households having to pay hundreds of euros monthly for gas are the new nightmarish reality. Many are facing poverty for the first time.
“In recent days and weeks, some households have received notices for new installment payments that amount to seven to eight times the previous price. From October, they will now be fleeced by the state with its botched gas levy,” Blackout News reports further.
And there’s no relief in sight. Russia has made clear it will no longer deliver gas to Europe until the West lifts its sanctions against Moscow. The euro has since fallen below 99 cents for the first time in 20 years. A weaker euro adds further to the risks of even higher inflation, which is currently pummeling Europe.
Not only consumers are being severely impacted, but so are companies across Germany.
“As of September 2022, as many as 16% of them have completely shut down or drastically reduced production because they cannot pass on the gas prices to their customers, including the steel giant ArcelorMittal, which is shutting down production completely at two German plants,” reports Blackout News.
German needs an energy Marshall Plan
Germans have been spoiled by cheap, plentiful gas flowing from Russia for many years. But these carefree energy days are over as the country continues to shut down coal and nuclear power plants, thus contributing massively to the already acute energy shortage. The country’s dogmatic lunge to green energies included relying heavily on gas from Russia to fill in the energy supply gaps caused by volatile wind and sun.
Now the green energies scheme is disintegrating. Germany needs an energy Marshall Plan.
Plenty of warnings…”screwed up energy policy”
They were warned. At a UN General Assembly in 2018, then President Donald Trump warned Germany of a potential supply disaster from relying so heavily on Russia, but German leaders in attendance smirked, berated and ridiculed the US President.
German leaders smirking in response to Trump’s warning of relying heavily on Russian gas. Image cropped here.
Moreover, a vast array of skeptics and critics also had warned for years that Germany’s “Energiewende” was heading for disaster. They too were ridiculed and dismissed.
The disaster has arrived, as Trump warned, and my how the bill is coming due. Blackout News reports: “Consumers with the smallest CO₂ footprint are now paying the most for past mistakes – at least relative to their incomes. […] These people are now paying relatively the most for the screwed-up energy policy.”
Political gross negligence
Blackout News summarizes: “This redistribution is grossly lacking in solidarity. […] The burden could not be distributed any more unfairly.”
We’re talking tens of millions of Germans – and Europeans. If history is anything to go by, there’s a high risk of things getting really ugly this winter if leaders don’t get pragmatic and get their act together real soon.
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Ltes hope there is an Energienacht where good Gremans burn all the windmills and smash their neighbour’s solar panels
The “Energienacht” is what will result if they continue to pursue expansion of wind and solar as non-solutions to the imaginary ‘climate’ non-problem.
As in, being plunged into darkness…
Might this be called a reckoning(partial) for sins of the past?
“Consumers with the smallest CO₂ footprint are now paying the most for past mistakes – at least relative to their incomes. […] These people are now paying relatively the most for the screwed-up energy policy.”
On the other hand, that’s where the votes are. So … gooder and harder. Maybe (?) your politics (including quasi-religious doctrine) should include keeping your politics out of practical problems and then also not overwhelming practical solutions with your politics either. As it is, the statists are doing both on false moral grounds while those hardest hit are lapping it up.
The avalanche has already begun; it is too late for the pebbles to vote. – Ambassador Kosh, Babylon 5.
“Germany needs an energy Marshall Plan
Consumers are now having to endure the excruciating economic pain of the country’s intensifying energy crisis – brought on by decades of botched green energy policy and heavy reliance on Russian gas. “
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More and more these days, I find myself admiring many of the quotations of H. L. Mencken as I presume many others here at WUWT do.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out….without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable.”
–H. L. Mencken
TOP 25 QUOTES BY H. L. MENCKEN (of 926) | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)
Mark Twain also had a good observation: “America has no indigenous criminal class, except for Congress. “
Re: the comment system problem (see other comments). This is being tested on the latest version of MS Edge. Here, no problem with the text box – but NONE of the formatting tool buttons are showing their images. (Testing italic here. Seems to work, so long as you select it by tooltip, not the image.)
Serves ’em right to suffer.
“German(y) needs an energy Marshall Plan”
Except this time the in no Harry Truman, not even close, and there is no George Marshall. There is no money either. They already blew trillions on a scam.
After much hesitation, French commentariat still insists BREXIT is a disaster, as evidenced by the fall of the British currency, lol.
Also, French commentariat: “British economic disaster from BREXIT was stopped by the COVID crisis“.
I don’t understand what the elites were thinking. There is a heirarchy of electricity needs
1) Universal Access (the rest doesn’t matter if you don’t have a power line)
2) Reliable (the rest doesn’t matter if the line is dead)
3) Cost
4) Pollution (i.e. mercury, lead, arsenic…)
5) More cost
6) CO2
The only reason we could work on CO2 was that the first 5 were basically solved. However, places like Germany (and California) have made a system that is extremely brittle. Texas has managed the same levels of emissions reductions (almost) but with a system that is much more resilient even in the face of demand growth (a pressure that Germany and California don’t have).
For Texas please keep in mind that if the power demand this year was only as high as any of the previous all time peaks there would have been no concerns about the grid at all. The problem is that capacity growth isn’t as fast as demand growth. Those pesky conservatives chased out of New York and California keep seeking refuge in Texas and turning on more Air Conditioners!
When Germany was being bombed day and night during WW2, the people had lights and heat. Now, as one of the most prosperous countries on the planet they cannot.Why? Because they have completely surrendered to the Green Mafia. How many people have to freeze to death before they figure out that Greens care less about actual people than they do about virtue signaling? The elites of the government bureaucracy class and the WEF will not be sacrificing- only the ‘useless mouths,’ the average person. This is the exact attitude that led to the French Revolution.