How much of Germany’s chemical industry relied on Russian natural gas?
The cat is out of the bag now and NATO is running out of dictators to sack and loot at least the British pulled out but they are screwed with idiocracy already too
“How much of Germany’s chemical industry relied on Russian natural gas?”
Thanks to Merkle Germany’s entire economy is reliant on Russian gas. The gas forms the base for much of the rest of the economy, not just in energy, but in the base chemicals from which everything else is made. Replacing that gas requires a lot of new infrastructure and considerably more expensive base chemical industries.
There are other issues. Germany and much of the Western world has stopped having babies. They did this decades ago so the entire workforce is aging out and facing retirement. The retirees are promised a generous retirement package was supposed to be paid for by the younger workers, of which there are too few. (This is probably because housing is too expensive, and nobody can afford a house big enough to both have kids and to live close enough to have a job.)
As the article mentioned, the green energy stupidity has cost amazing amounts of money and will never pay for itself or provide enough energy. Germany has been lying about how much of their energy is green. The sun doesn’t shine enough to use solar cells, so it takes seven times as many to equal the amount you’d get from, say the American west. The wind farms don’t work as there isn’t enough reliable wind. The result is the dirty coal and politically divisive nuclear plants must operate continuously because you can’t just spin them up when the wind dies, and the sun don’t shine.
Most of the problems Germany faces are of their own creation. But, like an alcoholic, they’ll have to hit rock bottom before they face the financial and political realities of their situation. I do have to say I’m impressed they didn’t bow to Russia’s energy blackmail.
Germany is committed to going green no matter what the cost and is no longer reliable to manufacturing.
France is still using nuclear power and has no plans to stop. So companies are shifting production to France.
It is kind of hard to make cars without steel and natural gas.
This affects Volkswagon/Porsche/Audi/Mercedes/BMW/FIAT