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Welcome to Germany’s green economic miracle. The year is 2025! Germany’s so-called Energiewende (transition to renewable energies) has had one unmistakable result: Germany now finds itself rapidly nearing the brink of a third world country where the power supply is no longer reliable and brownouts becoming more and more a daily routine. What’s happening is the opposite of what was once promised by the know-it-all climate wisemen: “Green energies would lead to a clean and prosperous country that would be the envy of the world. So much for their fantasies. The reality, as reported yesterday by Germany’s leading daily, Bild...

Essay by Eric WorrallAs Germany braces for extreme economic and social hardship, it is worth reflecting on the misery the empty promises of green energy advocates have delivered.Germany girds for gas rationing, Europe on edge in Russian standoffBy Joseph Nasr and Vera Eckert* Europe fears Moscow will turn off gas supplies * Kremlin says rouble payments a good idea for other commodities * Kremlin says it will not immediately demand roubles for gas * Economic standoff raises risk of recession in EuropeBERLIN/FRANKFURT, March 30 (Reuters) – Germany triggered an emergency plan to manage gas supplies on Wednesday under which Europe’s...

Hanover first big city to ban hot water and central heating in public buildings.. Lights to be switched off at night on major buildings like museums and town hall .. Germans told to expect higher electricity bills and sweeping gas rationing.. Move is a response to Vladimir Putin's gas squeeze which has Europe panicking.. Russian state energy giant Gazprom cut gas supplies to Germany to 20 per cent . ... The Germany city of Hanover has become the first big city in Europe to ban hot water and central heating in public buildings ... The drastic step comes as Germans...

Germany warns of possible natural gas rationing amid dispute with Russia March 30, 2022 Environment Germany has declared an “early warning” that it could soon be facing a natural gas emergency as Europe’s largest economy prepares for the risk of a full supply disruption from Russia.Germany has declared an “early warning” that it could soon be facing a natural gas emergency as Europe’s largest economy prepares for the risk of a full supply disruption from Russia.The Kremlin has repeatedly demanded that so-called “unfriendly” countries pay in rubles for gas, stoking fears of a deepening energy crunch in Europe. The G-7,...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — As home to the world's cheapest gasoline, Venezuela has long had to contend with the hemorrhaging of supplies as smugglers haul gas across the border to cash in where the fuel costs far more. In neighboring Colombia, drivers pay 40 times as much as Venezuelans to tank up — $1.25 a liter ($4.73 a gallon), compared to 3 U.S. cents a liter (11 cents a gallon). So much gasoline is being taken out of Venezuela illegally that President Hugo Chavez's socialist government imposed rationing on motorists in one state bordering Colombia last year, and now it's...

A Daring Call for Protest These pictures show current graffiti on walls in Tehran announcing a protest gathering against the gas rationing. It says " To protest the gas rationing, please come together on Friday at Enqelab Square at 6PM." Writing graffiti on walls in Iran is a very serious offense, especially when it calls for protest, which is generally seen as conspiring against the government. A group calling itself Komite Mobarezat Melli Iran ( Committe of Iran's National Struggle ) has claimed to be calling for the protest. The final picture is of thousands of leaflets they printed also...

Iran is battling widespread violent unrest in wake of a decision to launch fuel rationing. Riots erupted in major Iranian cities after the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad introduced gasoline rationing. In many cases, rioters torched gasoline stations and state-owned banks in response to the huge lines. The riots, regarded as the worst since student protests in 1999, have spread to Ilam, Shiraz and Teheran. On Thursday, rioters, accusing the government of corruption, attacked banks and business centers as police acknowledged that they had not been prepared for the wave of unrest. [In Washington, Congress introduced a bill that would...

Tehran, 27 June (AKI) - The Iranian government will continue to ration petrol, the parliamentary speakership announced, despite violent public protests overnight in the capital Tehran and elsewhere that erupted again on Wednesday. Deputy parliament speaker Javad Bahonar told MPs that oil minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh will shortly unveil a plan to sell petrol at market prices to private citizens who need to buy more than the 100 litres per month they are allowed under the government's newly introduced rationing. Bahonar however declined to state what the commercial price of fuel would be. Some MPs denied that the rioting on Tuesday...

When Rudyard Kipling said it was a great virtue "if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you," he was not thinking of Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington. This week, as gasoline prices remained above $3 a gallon, she proposed giving the president the power to tell retailers what they can charge at the pump. A lot of people grew anxious seeing long lines forming last week, as motorists rushed to fill their tanks in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But Cantwell apparently enjoyed the sight well enough that...

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