He told you!
Posted on 07/26/2022 12:40:37 PM PDT by dennisw
Germany's leading energy expert says she's living in a nightmare. What's worse, she saw it coming.
Germany had vowed to ditch coal but is now restarting mothballed, coal-fired power stations
For 15 years Claudia Kemfert says she tried to warn politicians and the public that the country was too reliant on Russian energy.
Until recently Germany bought more than half of its gas from Russia. She advised Berlin to find other sources and focus more on renewables. And she warned against the construction of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline through which Germany receives much of its gas.
"That's what I did over the last 15 years, repeating and repeating and repeating. Hoping that what's happened now would never happen," she says, her frustration evident.
Vladimir Putin's decision to, in effect, weaponise Russian gas exports has sent Germany into a tailspin. Moscow has blamed essential maintenance on the Nord Stream pipeline for a recent reduction, then complete shut-off, of supply.
Few in Berlin are buying that. Even fewer believe Russia can be trusted to deliver what Germany needs for the coming winter.
On Wednesday the European Commission urged the EU's 27 member states to cut their gas use by 15% until March
Germany's coalition government is scrambling to secure alternative energy supplies.
It is planning a number of floating terminals for the reception of liquified natural gas (LNG). It is trying to secure supplies from other countries, including Qatar.
Images of German Economy Minister and Green politician Robert Habeck going cap in hand to the Middle East for fossil fuels were greeted with derision by some at home.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
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By CHRIS PLEASANCE FOR MAILONLINE —July 26th
Germany on the brink: EU’s economic powerhouse is heading for recession and energy rationing – with bills tripling – after Merkel ignored warnings Putin could cripple Europe by choking gas supplies
Russia is slowly choking off gas supplies to Germany, which are now down to just 20 per cent of normal level
Country is now facing an acute shortage over winter, amid warnings whole industries may have to shut down
£240billion could be wiped off the economy, experts warn, which could plunge into a recession until 2024
Household bills could triple, with street lights dimmed and swimming pools already shut to make savings
Pain is a legacy of Angela Merkel, who ignored 15 years of warnings about over-reliance on Russian energy
Europe’s summer heatwave has only just finished, but already panic is growing in Germany over what horrors may lay in store for its citizens this winter.
Vladimir Putin is choking the country’s gas supplies - officially because of ‘essential repair work’ to pipelines, though few doubt he is exacting revenge for Berlin’s defiance over Ukraine. Flows through Nord Stream 1, Germany’s main gas pipe, are now at 20 per cent of normal levels. There are fears it could soon close for good.
That has sparked warnings of energy rationing for both households and businesses which, under worse-case scenarios, could force entire industries to shut down. Domestic energy bills could triple, pushing already-high inflation up by another 2 per cent. £240billion could be wiped off the economy, with aftershocks felt into 2024.
‘Germany is on the cusp of a recession,’ is how top economist Clemens Fuest put it yesterday. Others worry the whole Eurozone could soon go into reverse.
In order to avert a catastrophe, EU leaders today agreed to cut gas use by 15 per cent but Germany - which imports the most Russian gas of any member state by far - faces double that. Economy minister Robert Habeck says he is taking shorter showers, while regional leaders are dimming street lights and closing swimming pools.
The fiasco is a legacy of Angela Merkel, who ignored 15 years of warnings from her own top energy expert Claudia Kemfert that over-reliance on Russian energy would make the country vulnerable.
As Viktorija Starych-Samuolienė, co-founder of think-tank Council on Geostrategy, told MailOnline: ‘Germany is in for a rough winter due to its heavy reliance on Russian gas.
‘Despite repeated warnings about the risks of this reliance successive German governments have only deepened it, opening the country up to the risk of Russia doing exactly what it looks to be doing - using gas as a weapon.’
slow to the party fritz
Germany finally waking up
only took them 30 years of being conned by Russia and its propagandists!
at least now, things can finally change ...
So, are the Krautz thanking Merkel yet for sabotaging their nuke power plants?
Wonder if they laughed as hard at her as they did Trump? But they ain't laughin' now.
“Germany finally waking up
only took them 30 years of being conned by Russia and its propagandists!
at least now, things can finally change ..”.
Uh, I think you forgot being conned by the ENVIRONMENTALISTS.
Trump was right AGAIN! but Merkle refused to listen to him and now germany is hosed ...
Screw Germany.
You could cut off gas to government offices.
German Greenies are going to make themselves very scarce this winter.
Its the same sort fantastical thinking that gave Germany "Energiewende," that also makes them believe they can send German tanks and artillery to Ukraine to kill Russian soldiers, without it having any effect on Russian willingness to supply gas!
Eurolemmings, forward!
She is not living in a nightmare. Her power will never be shut off and she will always have heat in her house. As an expert she is a member of the privileged elites and they all have a reliable grid leading to their homes and neighborhoods. The only nightmare will be when the peasants in the surrounding countryside get so cold that they try to get warm inside her house.
Merkel should swing for leading the Germans into this travesty. Germany was doing quite well with their nukes and coal-fired power sources. Now the taxpayers get to dig deeper into their pockets to cover for some idiot’s phuckups.
Sound familiar ... ?
So they sold their souls for Russian gas instead.
Burn that lignite, Deutsche Greenie boys and girls! 
You’re right. They’ll be hunkering down next to the wood stoves. Lol
Seems rather they believed their own utopian green fairy-tales, while blindly following the NATO and US Deep State into a proxy-war with Russia.
Every other generation or so, Germany pursues some utopian social and political scheme, which always eventually brings disaster upon itself.
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