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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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.People can only take hot showers for 10 hours a day - LoL!
Europe will be forged in crisis, and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises.This is not an unintended consequence by far. This is designed to create demand for certain policies and certain types of leadership to implement them.
— Jean Monnet
40% of German households heat with gas.....rationing is not going to go over with the German people once th snow flies.
“Good job Merkel and euro-greenies!”
She’s not alone. Most Leftists are exactly to blame. The question is, will they ever change. Ever acknowledge the disasters their policies resulted in? The obvious answer is, Highly Unlikely. They are Zealots.
Donald Trump told them this would be the result of their STUPIDITY. The man was ridiculed for it. And, as usual, Trump was 100% Correct.
Oh!..it got better then that!...
once the inevitable inflation hit ... Paper Money had more thermal value then it was worth...
Looks like Germany’s plan is they’ll be off Russian gas by 2024.....By that time Ukraine conflict will be far over.
....so how much idling will they be doing waiting in long lines with their engines running this winter.
wonder if the Germans are still laughing.
CAn’t they all just stand outside and blow on a windmill?
Trump is a real estate developer but he also knows the oil and gas industry and marketing a lot better than any of these silly women and their woke male enablers running the EU.
Fahrenheit 2022
Not to mention their vast public transportation systems, which run on gas and electricity.
They’ll also have to reduce the speed on the Autobahn. from 90 to 40 to save gas.
Remind me, why did we rebuild this corrupt nation after WWII?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/26/germany-agrees-to-end-reliance-on-coal-stations-by-2038
Morons.
Gangreen!
Germany Reacts to Trump’s UNGA Speech
Sep 25, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfJv9QYrlwg
“Punishing Putin” in theory is “punishing Western Countries” in practice.
All of the boomeranging Suicide Sanctions need to be ended immediately.
Germany’s gonna party like it’s 4000 B.C.
Call Elon and book his spaceships ASAP.
Suicide sanctions are suicidal.
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