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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Germans will stink even more than they do now?
Cologne maker futures up.
Lol 😆
Probably just means there is more hot water available at these designated times.
Germans are going to suffer some minor inconveniences. People here demanding that they should freak out and surrender to avoid it just want their idol Putin to succeed in his atrocities.
The inevitable end result when useful idiots get to vote for other useful idiots who get to define energy policy for a country.
Yes, that is a slam against democracy.
Just hope they don’t go back to burning people...
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My recollection of life in Germany in the early 70s while stationed there was that they didn’t bother with showers or baths beyond weekly. Most of them took a daily whore bath in a pan or basin, as most of the existing housing I ever saw didn’t have a shower, only a tub. I guess they’ve modernized.
There is communal hot water in German cities?
That’s what I’ve been wondering. Do they have hot water pipes running down the street like electric wire? Pre-heated water, and you don’t have a water heater in the house? What am I missing here?
Yes, that is a slam against democracy.
I think it's more a slam against idiots and especially against useful idiots.
OK
Do I have to take the temperature of my poops to make sure I am not wasting heat?
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