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Five and a half million Germans could not heat their homes sufficiently in 2022 due to lack of money (www.destatis.de)

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Thanks Merkel for keeping us dependent on russian gas.

And thanks all the peoplethat voted against efforts to move to renewables, continue to block themand opposed a law that would transition us away from fossil heating.

Also the sale of Oil and Gas heating skyrocketed this year, because of panics that it might be banned soon to install new ones under the new law. The law specified something like 2027, but the German idiot never lets facts get in the way of his Angst and panic pushed by right wing media and politics.

The issue is that the progressive side warned that this will happen and it will get worse as the prices of fossils have to increase. But the conservative majority in Germany wants to get fucked, as long as they can continue fucking the planet, because that is what they always did and identify with.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

diE gRüNeN wOlLeN uNs UnSeRe aUtOs wEgNehMeN!!!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

This artificial panic is for once not about cars, it's about heating. Too many germans think and or have been conditioned to think that the Greens and other environmentalists want them to just shut off their heating and freeze. The network of gas industry lobbyists is strong in germany and successfully installed a "clean-gas"-campaign in the former government and now convinces even a Green industrial minister to install new and very oversized LNG terminals, in part because of the Green-cold scare.

[–] Burn_The_Right 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And thanks all the people that voted against efforts to move to renewables, continue to block them and opposed a law that would transition us away from fossil heating.

I believe those people are called "conservatives".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it were only the conservatives. The liberal party and the social democrats aren't better in any way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You seem to associate “conservative” with the Union only but SPD and FDP leaderships are also quite conservative in many regards.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Thanks Merkel for keeping us dependent on russian gas.

And let's thank the SPD for making us depend on russian gas in the first place.