Germany Facing Future of No Beer and Cold Showers?

Germany Facing Future of No Beer and Cold Shoulders?

natural gas nowTom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

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Germany, led by a stubborn former East German who exemplified authoritarianism, went on an Energiewende bender, but is paying the price we told them to expect.

Angela Markel led Germany into what we said would be an energy disaster as she promoted the foolish Energiewende, banned fracking at home, planned the demise of nuclear and locked her nation into dependence on Russian natural gas. Eight years ago, I wrote about where this was all leading, noting “Germany’s renewables program isn’t delivering, isn’t affordable and isn’t anything close to what’s been touted by our fractivist friends.” The evidence was all there, but Germany stubbornly clung to its green dreams and now it faces and even worse future of no beer and cold showers. It’s about as grim a picture as one can imagine for the boisterous imbibers who like to dress up and dance around with a stein in their hand to the music of some oompah band.

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It would be easy to say I regret having to say “We told you so,” but that would be a falsehood, because it appears the only way to knock people off the politically correct energy path to their own destruction is for them to experience cold showers, dark rooms and no beer, not to mention exploding costs of energy and malling by the Russian bear. That’s what’s happening, so, while I hope it only lasts long enough to restore sanity, Germany is getting a very necessary lesson. Consider the following:

People in Hanover, Germany, are stuck with cold showers and reduced heat in city buildings as Russia continues to cut its gas supply to Europe.

Hanover is the first major European city to start making significant cuts to its energy usage to brace for a possible winter gas crisis as the Russian war in Ukraine rages on…

The city’s goal is to cut its energy use by 15 per cent, bringing them in line with a recent European Union agreement to ration energy and wean itself from dependence on Russian gas.

That means turning off the hot water in city-run facilities, including swimming pools, sports halls and gyms, forcing people to wash their hands and take showers in cold water. 

The city is also shutting off outdoor lighting at museums, municipal buildings and other public sites around the city, and turning off all public fountains.

Come fall, heat use will also be scaled back.

And, then there’s this:

Famous event Oktoberfest may yet be cancelled for the third year in a row. It was axed in 2020 and 2021 for the pandemic.

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