Madness , how the Green Party (17% at the last election) as a junior coalition party is able to deindustrialise Germany. It isn’t about so-called man made Climate Change anymore, but shrinking (destroy) Germany’s Industry as coal plants are now replacing nuclear power and natural gas. The coalition partners so far seem to be unwilling to stop this nonsense. On top of only EV production by 2030, expensive heat pumps are already required by 2024 to replace old gas boilers in private homes. Many landlords and house owners won’t be able to afford the required renovations. Many companies are fleeing Germany and settling either in the US or Eastern Europe (mainly Poland). I wonder when the German population will finally show some resistance. Guess only once the AfD makes huge gains at the next major elections…
“ I wonder when the German population will finally show some resistance”
When they start feeling the pain. All German politicians need is a calculator and a high school knowledge of physics. Switching to 100% wind and solar will require eliminating agriculture in Germany and completely destroying its landscape (solar panels and wind turbines have to go somewhere and Germany will need a lot of them). Even the greenest Germans will not go for that.
“ I wonder when the German population will finally show some resistance”
When they start feeling the pain. All German politicians need is a calculator and a high school knowledge of physics. Switching to 100% wind and solar will require eliminating agriculture in Germany and completely destroying its landscape (solar panels and wind turbines have to go somewhere and Germany will need a lot of them). Even the greenest Germans will not go for that.
Stephanie Surface
1 year ago
Madness , how the Green Party (17% at the last election) as a junior coalition party is able to deindustrialise Germany. It isn’t about so-called man made Climate Change anymore, but shrinking (destroy) Germany’s Industry as coal plants are now replacing nuclear power and natural gas. The coalition partners so far seem to be unwilling to stop this nonsense. On top of only EV production by 2030, expensive heat pumps are already required by 2024 to replace old gas boilers in private homes. Many landlords and house owners won’t be able to afford the required renovations. Many companies are fleeing Germany and settling either in the US or Eastern Europe (mainly Poland). I wonder when the German population will finally show some resistance. Guess only once the AfD makes huge gains at the next major elections…
Susan Grabston
1 year ago
Feels the pinch? Germany is moving to suicide watch. The Hamburg mittelstand is beyond angry, they are starting to fold. Whither goes the mittelstands goes Germany.
The Mortgenthau plan in slow motion, the Neocons must be loving it
Susan Grabston
1 year ago
Feels the pinch? Germany is moving to suicide watch. The Hamburg mittelstand is beyond angry, they are starting to fold. Whither goes the mittelstands goes Germany.
Bruno Lucy
1 year ago
And all the while Angela Markel is celebrated as the best chancellor ever.
what a tragic joke. She was warned by the US then and just laughed them in their face. Who’s laughing now ?
She is collecting her 200 000 eur as ex chancellor, enjoying the perks of office, assistants and bodyguards while the plebe is wondering how to foot its electricity bill.
Her immigration policies were even worse than her energy policies. And I doubt she would feel welcome to spend her retirement on a beach in Greece. A catastrophe.
Her immigration policies were even worse than her energy policies. And I doubt she would feel welcome to spend her retirement on a beach in Greece. A catastrophe.
Bruno Lucy
1 year ago
And all the while Angela Markel is celebrated as the best chancellor ever.
what a tragic joke. She was warned by the US then and just laughed them in their face. Who’s laughing now ?
She is collecting her 200 000 eur as ex chancellor, enjoying the perks of office, assistants and bodyguards while the plebe is wondering how to foot its electricity bill.
Last edited 1 year ago by Bruno Lucy
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago
Just watch German industrial output vapourise if non electric cars become illegal?
China is taking over the market in Europe for electric car production – the Germans are going to have to promote other businesses- pickle-making, cuckoo clocks, etc.
China is taking over the market in Europe for electric car production – the Germans are going to have to promote other businesses- pickle-making, cuckoo clocks, etc.
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago
Just watch German industrial output vapourise if non electric cars become illegal?
Jacqueline Walker
1 year ago
Agree this is all so much lunacy. One watches on in horror and wonders how much “reality” is required to stop this nonsense.
Jacqueline Walker
1 year ago
Agree this is all so much lunacy. One watches on in horror and wonders how much “reality” is required to stop this nonsense.
Thomas Wagner
1 year ago
Alas, German industry cannot run on ideology
Then it had better learn. It’s the only form of energy in unlimited supply.
Thomas Wagner
1 year ago
Alas, German industry cannot run on ideology
Then it had better learn. It’s the only form of energy in unlimited supply.
John Hicks
1 year ago
An electoral system that draws 75% Bundestag membership from ideological conformist lists prepared by contesting political parties will surely deliver ideological skewed decisions: to the detriment of long suffering Germans.
John Hicks
1 year ago
An electoral system that draws 75% Bundestag membership from ideological conformist lists prepared by contesting political parties will surely deliver ideological skewed decisions: to the detriment of long suffering Germans.
Ted Ditchburn
1 year ago
It’s unbelievable what is being willed across the West.
If Germany keeps stagnating the EU is doomed because once they feel a real pinch there will be no chance of them continuing to act as lender of last resort in exchange for increasingly worthless assets.
It is bad enough here but it’s even worse in the EU these days.
Ted Ditchburn
1 year ago
It’s unbelievable what is being willed across the West.
If Germany keeps stagnating the EU is doomed because once they feel a real pinch there will be no chance of them continuing to act as lender of last resort in exchange for increasingly worthless assets.
It is bad enough here but it’s even worse in the EU these days.
Madness , how the Green Party (17% at the last election) as a junior coalition party is able to deindustrialise Germany. It isn’t about so-called man made Climate Change anymore, but shrinking (destroy) Germany’s Industry as coal plants are now replacing nuclear power and natural gas. The coalition partners so far seem to be unwilling to stop this nonsense. On top of only EV production by 2030, expensive heat pumps are already required by 2024 to replace old gas boilers in private homes. Many landlords and house owners won’t be able to afford the required renovations. Many companies are fleeing Germany and settling either in the US or Eastern Europe (mainly Poland). I wonder when the German population will finally show some resistance. Guess only once the AfD makes huge gains at the next major elections…
The US is only slightly farther behind. New York state just banned gas stoves for all new construction starting in 3 years.
….but a federal court just ruled that CA cannot enforce a ban on natural gas hookups in new buildings…
….but a federal court just ruled that CA cannot enforce a ban on natural gas hookups in new buildings…
“ I wonder when the German population will finally show some resistance”
When they start feeling the pain. All German politicians need is a calculator and a high school knowledge of physics. Switching to 100% wind and solar will require eliminating agriculture in Germany and completely destroying its landscape (solar panels and wind turbines have to go somewhere and Germany will need a lot of them). Even the greenest Germans will not go for that.
The US is only slightly farther behind. New York state just banned gas stoves for all new construction starting in 3 years.
“ I wonder when the German population will finally show some resistance”
When they start feeling the pain. All German politicians need is a calculator and a high school knowledge of physics. Switching to 100% wind and solar will require eliminating agriculture in Germany and completely destroying its landscape (solar panels and wind turbines have to go somewhere and Germany will need a lot of them). Even the greenest Germans will not go for that.
Madness , how the Green Party (17% at the last election) as a junior coalition party is able to deindustrialise Germany. It isn’t about so-called man made Climate Change anymore, but shrinking (destroy) Germany’s Industry as coal plants are now replacing nuclear power and natural gas. The coalition partners so far seem to be unwilling to stop this nonsense. On top of only EV production by 2030, expensive heat pumps are already required by 2024 to replace old gas boilers in private homes. Many landlords and house owners won’t be able to afford the required renovations. Many companies are fleeing Germany and settling either in the US or Eastern Europe (mainly Poland). I wonder when the German population will finally show some resistance. Guess only once the AfD makes huge gains at the next major elections…
Feels the pinch? Germany is moving to suicide watch. The Hamburg mittelstand is beyond angry, they are starting to fold. Whither goes the mittelstands goes Germany.
The Mortgenthau plan in slow motion, the Neocons must be loving it
The Mortgenthau plan in slow motion, the Neocons must be loving it
Feels the pinch? Germany is moving to suicide watch. The Hamburg mittelstand is beyond angry, they are starting to fold. Whither goes the mittelstands goes Germany.
And all the while Angela Markel is celebrated as the best chancellor ever.
what a tragic joke. She was warned by the US then and just laughed them in their face. Who’s laughing now ?
She is collecting her 200 000 eur as ex chancellor, enjoying the perks of office, assistants and bodyguards while the plebe is wondering how to foot its electricity bill.
Her immigration policies were even worse than her energy policies. And I doubt she would feel welcome to spend her retirement on a beach in Greece. A catastrophe.
Her immigration policies were even worse than her energy policies. And I doubt she would feel welcome to spend her retirement on a beach in Greece. A catastrophe.
And all the while Angela Markel is celebrated as the best chancellor ever.
what a tragic joke. She was warned by the US then and just laughed them in their face. Who’s laughing now ?
She is collecting her 200 000 eur as ex chancellor, enjoying the perks of office, assistants and bodyguards while the plebe is wondering how to foot its electricity bill.
Just watch German industrial output vapourise if non electric cars become illegal?
What is so good about electric cars if cannot charge them?
China is taking over the market in Europe for electric car production – the Germans are going to have to promote other businesses- pickle-making, cuckoo clocks, etc.
What is so good about electric cars if cannot charge them?
China is taking over the market in Europe for electric car production – the Germans are going to have to promote other businesses- pickle-making, cuckoo clocks, etc.
Just watch German industrial output vapourise if non electric cars become illegal?
Agree this is all so much lunacy. One watches on in horror and wonders how much “reality” is required to stop this nonsense.
Agree this is all so much lunacy. One watches on in horror and wonders how much “reality” is required to stop this nonsense.
Then it had better learn. It’s the only form of energy in unlimited supply.
Then it had better learn. It’s the only form of energy in unlimited supply.
An electoral system that draws 75% Bundestag membership from ideological conformist lists prepared by contesting political parties will surely deliver ideological skewed decisions: to the detriment of long suffering Germans.
An electoral system that draws 75% Bundestag membership from ideological conformist lists prepared by contesting political parties will surely deliver ideological skewed decisions: to the detriment of long suffering Germans.
It’s unbelievable what is being willed across the West.
If Germany keeps stagnating the EU is doomed because once they feel a real pinch there will be no chance of them continuing to act as lender of last resort in exchange for increasingly worthless assets.
It is bad enough here but it’s even worse in the EU these days.
It’s unbelievable what is being willed across the West.
If Germany keeps stagnating the EU is doomed because once they feel a real pinch there will be no chance of them continuing to act as lender of last resort in exchange for increasingly worthless assets.
It is bad enough here but it’s even worse in the EU these days.
Ban commuting.
Ban commuting.