By P Gosselin
The Green Tyranny expands as the German government readies to ban oil and gas heat beginning 2024!
Economic “death blow”
Germany’s Minister of Economics, Robert Habeck, Green Party, is reported to be planning a ban of gas and oil heating – as early as 2024, according to the online BILD.
Heat in Germany will soon become a precious luxury, affordable by the rich only. Image generated by AI Dall e 2.
The proposed plan comes just after the EU Parliament voted to ban the registration of new fossil fuel cars beginning 2035.
According to Habeck’s draft legislation, homes and buildings would replace oil and gas heating systems with those operating with renewable energies, such as a heat pump.
The first step in Habeck’s plan is to be implemented as early as 2024. Only heating systems that produce heat from “at least 65 percent renewable energy” are to be installed.
Existing gas and oil heating systems will likely be allowed to continue operation, but only for a limited time.
The Berliner Morgenpost reports: “Green politician also wants to phase out gas and oil heating systems that have already been installed. Specifically, these should only run for a maximum of 30 years – after which time they should finally be phased out.”
For consumers this would mean that only a heat pump or district heating would be options, and so would mean the end of gas and oil heating.
Economic death blow
The latest proposal would mean another huge economic blow for citizens who are already reeling from high inflation, high interest rates and a shrinking economy.
German Bundestag Member Frank Müller-Rosentritt of the FDP Free Democrats tweeted: “Extremely increased interest rates and high construction costs are already causing housing construction to collapse. The death blow is now being dealt by the Green Minister of Economics with his ideas, which completely ignore reality and cause rents to explode.”
Green fairy tale world
Other politicians and interest groups have also come out blazing in criticizing Habeck’s draft radical measures. The association “Haus und Grund” (Home and Property) rejects Habeck’s plans, with association president Kai Warnecke speaking of a “law from the green fairy tale world”.
The greens prefer fairy tales. Empirical reality is not their thing.
So bio-fuel internal combustion engines are OK then.
Probably best to get a woodstove set up before the ban. Either a purchased stove or a do-it-yourself project. Trees are biofuel and thus “green” , right?
I’d feel sorry for the Germans, but they continue to vote for these green numbskulls. AND, Germans do like to follow edicts from authorities, no matter how ill advised. So I guess they’ll just suffer until enough of them smarten up.
This CAGW Loonie Greenie nonsense only survives due to subsidies, which leads to corruption. Germany is collectively speeding up when they encounter the sign “dead-end street”, and joins others in this rush to oblivion.
Es tut mir leid, Hans
The greens got enough votes in 2021 to matter even if they are all nutcases..
“As the September 2021 general election approached, the Greens topped both parties in the ruling coalition in opinion polls, but that lead soon eroded, in part because of missteps by Green Party co-leader Annalena Baerbock. Nevertheless, the Greens performed very strongly, capturing 14.8 percent of the vote and 118 seats in the Bundestag. With the two major parties each winning about a quarter of the vote, the third-place Greens were seen as potential kingmakers ahead of postelection coalition talks.”
SOURCE OF QUOTE:
Green Party of Germany | Policies, Platform, Leader, & Election Performance | Britannica
I fear that this nonsense will continue until countries hit rock bottom when the lights go out. And I don’t think that’s going to be pretty. But when so many people are irrationally scared of an apparition (manmade global warming) I fear the worst. After everything we experienced with our terrible and completely unnecessary COVID interventions is it reasonable to think that saner heads will prevail when it comes to CO2?
I guess the Germans now have nine months to install a brand new heating system before the ban kicks in. If this actually becomes law of course.
Carbon dioxide does not affect the weather
If they mandate only heating systems that have greater than 65% renewable/green energy after 2024, that will rule out any heat pumps in Germany. Their electricity supply is not green enough!! Only 44% (Statista) of German electricity comes from ‘renewable’ sources.
Show me the numbers — source and cost of whatever German’s Minister of Economics believes will replace gas and oil heating. And who will pay for it. And how long Robert Habeck will be in jail when the “plan” fails.
Skin in the game.
So they want to use and air conditioners to heat Germany in the winter.
Issues with this are the use of refrigerants that are evil such as propane.
Heat pumps do not work well at temperatures below 4.5 C.
They use a lot of electricity.
Those in charge know this will never work especially in Bavarian winters.
For most of Germany that means little to no heat for 3-4 months.
As I recall the French Revolution was the result of not enough flower to make bread.
Women and mothers in Paris went to Versailles and basically ended the monarchy.
But nothing will go wrong the peasants will just go along and die. Good luck with that.
It astonishes me that there are countries with even worse leadership than Canada. It truly seems impossible.
And just like that, Germany died. Bye Germany.
Mentally retarded.