By P Gosselin
The only thing Berlin’s fueling is discontent…
The German government’s CO2 price increase beginning from January 2024 will make petrol, heating and electricity more expensive.
Already Germany’s industry is shrinking rapidly and farmers are now protesting nationally due to high fuels costs:
These protests are rapidly expanding and a national day of protest in planned for January 8, 2024. Many of the working class are expected to join in.
Yet, Germany’s Socialist-Green government, led by Olaf Scholz, continues to stick to its plans to drastically increase the carbon price, beginning in January, and thus make life for millions even more painful.
Currently the price is 30 euros per ton and it will rise to 45 euros per ton beginning in 2024.
“As a result, the cost of refueling, heating and electricity will continue to rise.” reports Blackout News here.
Not only will this fuel inflation, but will also only further exacerbate a discontent that it is approaching the boiling over point. Social unrest threatens.
“Heating costs in Germany will continue to rise in the coming year. According to the comparison portal “Verivox”, the price of gas will rise by 0.39 cents per kilowatt hour, while heating oil will become 4.8 cents more expensive per liter. For an average family with a heating requirement of 20,000 kilowatt hours, this means additional annual costs of 78 euros for gas and 96 euros for heating oil. These increases come on top of already high energy prices and place a further burden on households,” according to Blackout News.
The CO2 tax increase will also impact the prices at the gas pump and be felt by both both consumers and businesses.
There’s also no end in the rise in electricity price for consumers, as power grid charges go into effect and there alone consumers will be burdened another 100 euros annually.
The government is also introducing a jet fuel tax for domestic flights in a bid to herd more citizens into trains and buses.
Even the press in Germany – largely center-left – have criticized “the back door” tax hikes.
Their attitude as to why the Energiewende has been a failure is that they did not do it quite right yet. And King Knut’s courtiers could claim his failure ordering the tides was not ordering the stop hard enough.
King Knut was trying to show he didn’t have the power to order the tides.
King Knut knew that before he did his tide thing, but he wanted to show it anyway.
But the militarily, impotent, gremlin German government is fanatic and suicidal about showing people it is unrelentingly, super green, and will increase taxes, fees and surcharges, until people revolt and vote the entire cabal out for ever, to safeguard their future livelihoods.
Let’s see what will happen on january 8 in Germany.
Well, if there is a mass protest, we sure won’t hear about it on the BBC, or other MSMs.
That’s probably why the comment refers to his courtiers rather than to the king himself.
Throwing the farmers into jail for a couple of years ought to do it.
Canadians are like sheep, they’ll take the increase in carbon tax Trudeau’s imposing in 2024 in stride…….oh wait you’re talking about Germany.
The sheeps are living too in Germany…
Don’t leave out the UK. We’re not far behind Germany, with this nut-zero nonsense.
bob,
Nearly all of the Western “democracies” are trying to create a populace of ignorant, obsequious sheep! There are numerous reasons cited for such a blatant attempt to destroy the middle and working class, but the KlimateKultKabuki is the most powerful weapon in the arsenal of the global elites as they try to impose Feudalism, 2.0!
Trying to enlighten the poor saps who have dutifully swallowed the KlimateKult propaganda will be a worldwide endeavor! “Hey, Sisyphus, hold my beer!”
They seem to be succeeding 😒
‘…global elites as they try to impose Feudalism, 2.0!’
I’m not an economic historian, but I understand that the effective tax take of the Elites from the Serfs under Feudalism 1.0 was on the order of 10%. Question at large: When did we stop being Serfs?
When you add the transport cost of goods which will no longer be produced in Germany due to this tax, the “Carbon tax” will itself be net CO2 positive.
When the Germans really get the hump with these taxes and restrictions, they will take to the streets and it’ll make the Netherlands protests look small by comparison.
For too long now the left has been kicking their own citizens, secure in the knowledge that the citizens will always take it. I’m not so sure that is true and we’re not too far away from the citizens waking up and deciding to turn the tables.
AfD should give a shiver to anyone familiar with 20c European history. Rising in the polls, winning mayoral elections in the east. National power is coming into sight as a real possibility. It won’t repeat, if it happens, but it will rhyme.
To every action there is an equal opposite reaction….
Maybe but elections have ceased to be fair.
Because far too many people either work inside government directly or on its periphery as cronies
And those particular turkeys are NOT going to vote for Christmas – they are going to vote for their continued comfort nestled firmly up against the bosom to Gig Government and they will always vote for anything that makes it bigger and so reinforces their position.
Everybody whose pay-check is signed ‘government‘ should be disallowed from voting.
It’s more obvious than an Obvious Thing, even before ‘office politics‘ put immense and irresistible pressure on how people vote
haha: The Great **Gig in the Sky
“Romney: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. And I mean, the president starts off with 48, 49, 48—he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax.”
The 47% actual quote from Romney that the MSM in the US endlessly repeated, but only the last part, “47% pay no income taxes” and called that a l!e, which it was not.
The similar is true for all western wealthy, soon to be formerly wealthy, nations.
As has been mentioned on WUWT many times it is hard to get people to act, or vote, against their own best financial interests, but, I add, unless the whole of “academia” and the MSM has spent years misinforming the “masses” through propaganda.
It’s a joy to agree wholeheartedly with you on something Peta.
The AfD of the eastern part of Germany is so far right I won’t see them in the Federal Gouvernement other than as opposition.
On the other hand, they have nothing to do than waiting for the BS the actuel Gouvernement produces, and there is a lot.
Krishna,
I must conclude that either you assert that the AfD programme is not what they actually espouse, or that you consider classical liberalism to be “so far right”.
As I asked Michel, could you please point out which sections make AfD so frightening?
https://www.afd.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Programm_AfD_Online_.pdf
The fish does not realize that he is wet nor comprehend the concept of dry if he has never experienced it.
I guess that the idea of liberty is an alien and frightening concept for people steeped in socialist big-government ideology all their lives.
Please tell me which parts of the AfD program are supposed to give a shiver to us, Michel.
https://www.afd.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Programm_AfD_Online_.pdf
I haven’t read it all yet, but reading through the table of contents, this is no fascist manifesto. It is classical liberalism, free market liberalism. Sure nationalism, but not hatred of others, but love of one’s own heritage.
There was someone who was hailed as some kind of political expert who was interviewed about the AfD. The interviewer asked the “expert” to justify his view that the AfD is ‘far right’. He couldn’t do it. (Sorry I can’t provide the link but I could not find the video.) One AfD policy which is used to justify the ‘far-right’ label is that they are not enthusiastic supporters of the EU Project. (Guess who’s using the ‘far-right’ label!) Another “sign” that they are ‘far right’ is that they don’t support vaccination mandates. And a third sign is that they don’t support the high levels of immigration which have been allowed in Germany in recent years. We begin to see a pattern among AfD critics.
The only way is up – baby
Energiewende isn’t limited to Germany, of course. It’s here (United States) now, but fortunately it’s still at a relatively glacial pace (no pun intended), except in that mythical place called Kalifornia. But get ready now, folks…
and Wokeachusetts
And the PRC (People’s Republic of Connecticut)
We’ve had mild weather this fall and up to now. About as nice as one could want in this part of the planet. Yet, we’re being told by our states that we’re having a f*****g emergency! A crisis! I don’t see anyone around here complaining. OK, I love snowshoeing in the deep woods but I’m happy to do without it. And I hate snow shoveling.
Don’t forget New York.
i can see
Russiawindmills from my house.Well changing the climate requires sacrifices and there’s no scientific reason why the deplorables have to eat their bugs hot.
I am pursuing a diet based entirely on plants and insects! The plants will be processed into high quality proteins by various ruminants, and the insects become highly palatable when run through Salmoninae before consumption!
I hear that smoked Salmoninae is considered a breakfast item in Great Britain (which I look forward to trying,) but I still say the greatest breakfast of my life was fresh trout with eggs, bacon, and sourdough pancakes on the side! A good horse with a fishing pole and sack lunch on the back of the saddle; and all day to decide between river, lake, or stream is as close to Heaven as I have yet experienced!
Smoked Salmon is not so common as a breakfast item, more an hors d’ouevres. Kippers or smoked herring have been a traditional breakfast item, or kedgeree – smoked haddock or herring, curried rice, sultanas, hard boiled eggs and plenty of butter and cream.
Observa, I observe three extraneous words tacked onto your comment—“their bugs hot”. They probably got in there via that pesky auto-corrupt feature.
Clearly you intended to say “… there’s no scientific reason why the deplorables have to eat.”
CA’s cap and trade program sure have affected fuel prices over the years-
California’s Cap-and-Trade Program: Frequently Asked Questions https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4811
“How Does the Program Affect Gas Prices?
As of this writing, CARB estimates that the cap-and-trade program adds about 27 cents to each gallon of retail gasoline sold in California. This assumes transportation fuel suppliers pass their compliance costs on to consumers in the form of higher retail gas prices, which economists have found to be the case.”
Where do some of those fees/taxes go you ask- The High Speed Rail project is sucking up 25% of the revenue the state gets from the program via “statutory spending commitments.”
Glad we don’t pay CA fuel prices anymore as the hidden costs/fees were getting more than noticeable compared to other locations-
Does Station Competition Drive Gas Prices? – Energy Institute Blog (wordpress.com)
https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2023/12/11/does-station-competition-drive-gas-prices/#comment-90735
Mark
Their cap and trade programme, is forcing their proletariat, to go cap in hand.
The State of Washington imposes a ~ $0.50 ‘Carbon Tax’ on every gallon of gasoline and diesel fuels. The money is used to fund a bunch of “Green” projects and “environmental” lobbyists.
It’s like a self-licking ice cream cone for the Warmunists.
And due to that measure and others, the 3 term governor is not running for reelection.
The Republicans have a chance to win the Governors seat and a statewide office for the first time in years.
My recent visit to that state had me paying over $5 per gallon for diesel due to that added tax.
Interestingly, Quebec is aligned with California’s cap and trade program – and their effective carbon tax is reported to be 10% less than what other Canadians pay under the federal tax scheme (of which Quebec is exempt).
All the more reason to boot Quebec from the Canadian government, thus end the subsidies to them and their votes. Then Canada will, for a time at least, become a conservative country and their average standard of living would rise substantially.
^ +++
Energiewende: all faith, no science.
Our German friends collectively try to commit suicide every so often. Each time they also try to drag us all into their delusion.
It is high time we stop this madness.
It’s more complicated than that.
Even more.
Leftist low information delusional commenters insist that German’s energiewende is a roaring success with wind and solar providing anywhere from 26%, to almost half, to most of Germany’s electrical generation depending on the degree of their “confusion.” They can’t let themselves learn about nameplate vs capacity factor, the high percentage from livestock and comparable waste, hydro from Scandinavia, and nuclear from France all eschewing the RE (Ruinous Energy) TOTAL.
Germany can’t survive on their current wind and solar path. Their multi-party-political conglomeration is dysfunctional. Their best hope is for a continuation of the recent significant gains by the AfD (Alternative for Deutschland political party) IMHO.
More good news. The common guy needs to be informed. It is the only way to end this nonsense. Keep a list of the people causing the trouble. At some point they are going to be held personally accountable.
I am a railway enthusiast. This year I visited the steam railways in the Harz. Next year I will be visiting steam railways on the Baltic coast. I hope that these wonderful institutions are not imperilled by this mad tax. The train which goes to the top of the Brocken in the Harz costs 53 euros return, wherever you board the train. Yet the trains are very busy. The tourists – mostly Germans – think they’re wonderful. They might not like something which stops these trains running. It wouldn’t half damage the tourist industry.
Well, the German govt must have had some very important projects to manage with that 30 euros/Ton budget.
Those projects must have been so very successful helpful to the German citizenry.
So much so that the German peoples were happy to authorize and allot another 50% … over and above of the initial investment.
“Invest in the Tomorrow … Because Today’s Future is Yesterday’s Vision, and we need to do our part Now”. (how to say that if German? does it roll right off the tongue? can the German peoples movement adopt it as their uplifting slogan?)