Posted on 12/15/2022 8:55:39 AM PST by rktman
The spectre of future energy blackouts is once again looming in Germany, with the country’s plan to cut consumption falling significantly short amid cold winter weather.
A cold snap that has hit the north of Europe is now seriously threatening Germany’s energy security, with the country now reportedly falling far short of hitting gas savings targets of 20 per cent needed to avoid rolling blackouts.
While many officials across the country had warned that there is a very real threat that Germany could be facing serious energy shortages over the next few months, bigwigs close to the government have repeatedly dismissed these concerns, expressing confidence that the country’s plans to cut energy usage will be enough to see it through the winter.
However, such confidence now appears to have been shaken significantly by recent events, with public-service broadcaster ZDF reporting that Klaus Müller, the head of Germany’s Federal Network Agency energy watchdog, has once again publicly begged the public to use less gas.
While attempting to reassure Germans that the country remains “very, very far away from a gas shortage”, Müller admitted that the country was now burning far more gas than initially expected for this time of year, revealing that the country had actually managed to chew through one percent of its entire gas reserve on Monday alone.
“That should now remain an outlier,” he said, arguing that high consumption should not be allowed to continue in January and February.
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“Iggzactly” what we are doing. My son as well. Works in Western Washington in the “rain shadow”.
At that rate the reserve zeroes out in March, at which time the average low temperature is still in the 30's Fahrenheit in most of Germany. If it does turn out to be the colder than average winter they're now predicting they aren't even going to make it until then.
The Greens are scrambling to find a scapegoat other then their own ridiculous policies. The problem with RussiaRussiaRussia is that it validates what that U.S. president nobody likes was saying. What to do?
The citizens of Europe are going to have a frigid and miserable winter and they have no one but themselves to blame for it. The green party, EU, the USA, NATO, the cesspool that is the Ukraine and Putin combined to put a smack down on this mess of socialists.
Stupid should hurt...like when you smash your frozen thumb with a hammer.
Good advice.
Love that definition of TESLA!
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