Posted on 07/08/2022 9:36:32 PM PDT by grundle
For months, Germany has feared having to ration energy amid Russia’s increasing willingness to turn off the tap. Now those fears are becoming a reality as Germany prepares for a return to 1970s-style energy rationing, when the OPEC oil embargo forced governments to mandate measures like dimmer lights and car-free Sundays.
Only, the energy crisis of 2022 isn’t limited to oil.
Last year, Germany relied on Russia for 55% of its natural gas imports. Germany has since been able to reduce that number to 35%, but with Russia seemingly prepared to further cut gas shipments to Europe, German officials are having to make some difficult choices.
This week, a city official in Hamburg—Germany’s second-largest city—warned that “warm water could only be made available at certain times of the day in an emergency,” forecasting the possibility of a severe natural gas shortage. And on Friday, residents in the eastern German state of Saxony were told by their housing association that they could take hot showers only between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. each day, the Financial Times reported.
“The situation is more than dramatic,” Axel Gedaschko, a German politician and president of GdW, the federal association of German housing, told the FT.
It isn’t just hot water that’s being rationed. In addition to shorter shower times, officials are asking city councils nationwide to turn off traffic lights at night, stop illuminating historic buildings, and go easy on using air conditioners in a bid to conserve electricity, according to the FT.
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Good job Merkel and euro-greenies! GG
The New Stone Age- Same as the Old Stone Age
What did Liberals use before candles?
Electricity.
The planet would benefit a great deal from the removal of a couple billion liberals/progressives/socialists/communists from this planet.
Nothing to worry about. Everything will be alright when Steiner arrives with summer.
Sanctions have consequences.
I’m old enough to remember the Germans laughing at Trump for suggesting that their reliance on Russia for natural gas was ill advised.
The Green Dark Age is upon us.
“officials are asking city councils nationwide to turn off traffic lights at night, stop illuminating historic buildings, and go easy on using air conditioners”
That is close to nothing.
The German people, so smart yet so dumb. And to think we came so close to adopting German as our national language. We bailed these grennie clowns for this idiocy?
It’s going to get rough this winter.
Ronald Reagan warned the Germans back in the 1980’s to not be dependent on natural gas from Russia.
Alternatively, the euro-Greenie Germans could go back to burning books? I understood that there was lots of thermal value in doing such. /s
That it be. Lost souls. Good term, by the way.
How’s those refugees working out?
Seems not that long ago that Germany got a lot of its hydrocarbons from the Romanian oil fields.
The Green movement needs to be renamed. I recommend the New Luddites.
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