Posted on 08/31/2022 11:03:09 AM PDT by JonPreston
German producers are halting manufacturing in response to the surge in power costs brought on by Russia’s squeeze on gasoline provides, a development the federal government has described as “alarming”.
Robert Habeck, financial system minister, mentioned business had labored laborious to scale back its gasoline consumption in current months, partly by switching to various fuels like oil, making its processes extra environment friendly and decreasing output.
“It’s not good news,” he mentioned, “because it can mean that the industries in question aren’t just being restructured but are experiencing a rupture"
Habeck mentioned rising gasoline costs have been affecting everybody from large industrial firms to small buying and selling companies and the medium-sized enterprises that make up the “Mittelstand”. “Wherever energy is an important part of the business model, companies are experiencing sheer angst,” he mentioned.
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It’s springtime for Hitler and Germany...
I thought the Krauts were smarter than this. Apparently not.
They refer multiple times to "gasoline" in the article, but I'm thinking that it might be a mis-translation and should be "Natural Gas."
Energy costs are gonna start closing businesses around here on the coast, as well.
The margin in our business is ridiculously thin as it is, with the cost of heating/cooling going up we are very close to saying to-hell-with-it.
They’re almost as stupid as Americans who vote for Sleepy Joe, Kamala, Nancy, Chuck, Maxine, and even some dopey Republicans.
Yes, nat gas, IMO.
This is what happen when counties let a retarded Swedish teenager set their energy policy.
I guess he meant Natural Gas, not Gasoline. But not much of an expert if he cannot tell the difference.
> > > labored laborious
Who wrote that, Ogden Nash?
They were more advanced in the 1940’s…
Just my little story from living in Berlin...
I had an office in a 5 year old building. Built to the insane “green” standards set by the greenstapo. LED lights, plants on the roof (which I admit I did enjoy) insulation, all that stuff. One day an electrician crew came in to remove ALL the light switches and light fixtures to replace them with motion sensors. The office and bathroom lights would shut off after a few minutes and the hallway lights shut off as soon as you were about 10 feet from them. All to save the planet while Merkel was importing millions of her violent African and Muslim pets.
Europeans will be burning their dead this winter to keep warm.
I was in a local supermarket yesterday & was suddenly aware of how warm it was inside.
When I was a kid you could almost see your breath in supermarkets, they were kept so chilly.
Maybe they were trying to discourage people from going to the lav. It can get spooky sitting there in the dark.
I have some Howard Johnson shares I’d be willing to sell you.
It’s not even winter yet and already they starting to shut down manufacturing and dealing with sky high utility bills. I can’t see them allowing this to continue for much longer before pushback from their citizens forces them to negotiate an end to this war.
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