Germany Resorts to Coal in Effort to Wean Itself Off Gas
German will reopen closed-down coal power plants using emergency laws and offer $15bn in credit to gas suppliers to stock up for winter, Economy Minister Robert Habeck has announced.
Habeck says it is “painful, but it is a sheer necessity. If we don’t do it, then we run the risk that the storage facilities will not be full enough at the end of the year towards the winter season. And then we are blackmailable on a political level.”
Emergency gas plans would allow utility companies to pass on higher costs to consumers to dampen demand, or for the government to control energy and ration it to households.
Carbon Zero chance of this ending well for the people.
