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Earlier today we wrote that Germany’s largest landlord, Vonovia, had taken the unprecedented step of restricting heating at night, a terrifying preview of what lies in stock for the “most advanced” European nation this winter. Alas, it’s going to get worse, much worse.
According to the FT, Germany is now rationing hot water, dimming its street lights and shutting down swimming pools as the impact of its energy crunch begins to spread like the proverbial Ice-Nine wave, from industry to offices, leisure centers and residential homes.
The reason behind Germany’s slow motion paralysis is well-known: the huge increase in gas prices triggered by Russia’s move last month to sharply reduce supplies to Germany has plunged Europe’s biggest economy into its worst energy crisis since the oil price shock of 1973 (see “What’s Unfolding In Europe In Recent Days Is A Fresh Big Negative Supply Shock“)
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With electricity prices hitting never before seen levels, gas importers and utilities are fighting for survival while consumer bills are going through the roof, with some warning of rising friction (not to mention the infamous wheelbarrows full of cash).
“The situation is more than dramatic,” said Axel Gedaschko, head of the federation of German housing enterprises GdW. “Germany’s social peace is in great danger.”
Unfortunately, as tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine escalate, officials fear the situation could get worse. On Monday, as we reported last week, Russia is shutting down its main pipeline to Germany, Nord Stream 1, for 10 days of scheduled maintenance. Many in Berlin fear it will never reopen.
Commenting on the infamous July 22 day when Russian gas flows are expected to resume, DB’s Jim Reid writes that “while we all spend most of our market time thinking about the Fed and a recession, I suspect what happens to Russian gas in H2 is potentially an even bigger story. Of course by July 22nd parts may have be found and the supply might start to normalise. Anyone who tells you they know what is going to happen here is guessing but as minimum it should be a huge focal point for everyone in markets.”
The bank also conveniently warns that “if the gas shutoff is not resolved in coming weeks this would lead to a broadening out of energy disruption with material upfront effects on economic growth, and of course much higher inflation.”
Anticipating the worst case outcome, Germany last month took a crucial step towards rationing gas when economy minister Robert Habeck activated the second stage of the country’s gas emergency plan. “The situation on the gas market is tense and unfortunately we can’t guarantee that it will not get worse,” he said on Tuesday. “We have to be prepared for the situation to become critical.”
Habeck, who says he is now taking shorter showers, has appealed to the population to save energy — and municipalities and property owners have heeded the call.
As we reported this morning, Vonovia, the country’s largest residential landlord, said it would be lowering the temperature of its tenants’ gas central heating to 17C between 11pm and 6am. It said the measure would save 8 per cent in heating costs.
A housing association in the Saxon town of Dippoldiswalde, near the Czech border, went a step further this week, saying it was rationing the supply of hot water to tenants. From now on they can only take hot showers between 4am-8am, 11am-1pm and 5pm-9pm.
“As we announced in our general meeting, we have to save for the winter,” a notice in the affected blocks reads.
Such measures could become routine in the coming weeks. Helmut Dedy, head of the German Association of Towns and Cities, said the “whole of society” must now cut down on its energy consumption, saving in summer “so we have warm flats in winter”.
“Every kilowatt-hour we save helps to fill the gas storage a bit more,” he said as he appealed to town councils up and down the country to take emergency action. He had a few suggestions: turn off traffic lights at night; shut off hot water in council buildings, museums and sports centres; adjust air conditioners; and stop illuminating historic buildings
Some have already taken measures. The district of Lahn-Dill, near Frankfurt, is switching off the hot water in its 86 schools and 60 gyms from mid-September, a move it hopes will save it €100,000 in energy costs, and Düsseldorf has temporarily closed a massive swimming pool complex, the Münster-Therme. Meanwhile, Berlin has turned down the thermostat on open-air swimming pools, reducing their temperature by 2 degrees. In western Germany, Cologne is dimming its street lighting to 70 per cent of full strength from 11pm.
Residential customers are also taking action, reactivating wood-burning stoves and fireplaces. Sales of firewood, wood pellets and coal, as well as of gas canisters and cartridges, have shot up.
It is unclear how far such measures will soften the impact of higher heating bills, which which be through the roof. The GdW said the Ukraine war will push up energy prices for consumers by between 71 per cent and 200 per cent, amounting to additional annual costs of between €1,000 and €2,700 for a one-person household and up to €3,800 for four people, compared with 2021 levels.
Costs could increase even more as a result of a new law working its way through the German parliament. This would allow the government to impose an emergency levy on all gas consumers to spread the cost of higher prices more evenly. It is designed to prevent gas importers becoming insolvent, a scenario ministers fear could cause a Lehman Brothers-style meltdown of the whole sector. Uniper, the largest importer of Russian gas in Germany, is already in talks with officials on a state bailout that experts say could be as large as €9bn.
In the meantime, German consumers — both industrial and residential — are reverting back to East Gcutting their energy use. A study by the Hertie School in Berlin said industrial gas consumption fell 11 per cent in March and April this year, compared with the same period in 2021, and by 6 per cent in private households.
Much more needs to be done, said Lion Hirth, one of the study’s co-authors. “The decline in demand that we’ve seen up until now is unfortunately far from adequate to completely close the supply gap threatening us this winter,” he said. In his appeal to Germany’s municipalities this week, Dedy made a similar point. “The situation is very serious,” he said. “It’s already clear we’re going to have to leave our comfort zone.”
Let’s just hope that by exiting the “comfort zone” Germany does not enter the “war zone” – it’s traditionally not a happy ending for Europe when that happens…
germany copulates w the 3 legged diseased mongrel amerika—syphilis induced dementia
I found your doppelganger: https://martinezperspective.net/2022/07/08/hebrew-brain-malfunction/
Diversity, perversion and miscegenation altogether cause the worst disasters. The people are far more important than the land and resources, all Whites should live in separate countries from non-whites and let the non-whites do what they want to themselves.
You engage in pilpul: https://bit.ly/3Iq6C5I
Pilpul is a form of Jewish apologetics in which you make up your mind first, ignore all evidence, and makeup BS to support your conclusion, kinda like a woman.
It’s best explained with a story from the Talmud.
Rabbi Eliezer (brace yourself. Any story that starts with Rabbi Eliezer is usually crazy.) had an argument with the rabbinic council. They told him he was wrong so he brought physical proof. They didn’t care. So he showed them a miracle. They were unmoved. Eventually a voice from Heaven came down and declared Eliezer was correct in his interpretation of the Torah. The council discussed and said, since the Torah is on Earth, and not in Heaven, then Rabbis on Earth outrank anyone in Heaven interpreting it.
I know what you’re thinking. “That’s retarded.” First of all that’s Anti-Semitic, but yes.
Can you imagine if Jews still argued that way?
https://torahinmotion.org/discussions-and-blogs/bava-metzia-59-torah-is-not-in-heaven
“I know what you’re thinking. “That’s retarded.” ”
exactly what everyone thinks about your insane delirious rambling.
Nope. You need to listen to Rabbis, then you know that this story from Midgardlad is entirely realistic.b
nazi idaho hillbilly traumatized—you feminized childish incompetents require superior Jews to make all decisions for you….”amerikans bewilder Europeans”. Geoffrey Gorer
Then how come I was not born there and never lived there?
midge aka poko molo nazi inferiority complex incurable —Nietzsche a mediocre philosopher—derived his central approach from Dostoevsky as he wrote as did Scheler—their concepts ressentiment—anti-semitism, racism etc are explained as envy caused by believing you are inferior
Very impressing. Mr & Mrs Midgardlad seemes to know the Talmud better then the jews.
He might run for their pope next time. They only need to operate him high and low and take away all his wine and the pigfarm.
The pigs might like it. They already has several complaints about him UN.
but no different from your racism—senile night porter feels inferior
Hi. Aree you trans? I prefeare ladies with penis.
They remind me of my uncle Magnus Holm. Verry sexy.
inferior nazi hillbilly traumatized—-you cannot think; you are moron ameri-cannot
Germans gonna be setting their houses on fire just to keep them warm, people would be up in arms soon to topple their government for not defying sanctions against Russia ordered by the Anglo wankers, drop the sanctions and open up NordStream2, problems solved overnight.
Germany is involved with the retarded green energy scam and is idiotically weaning itself off from burning coal. It will not aggressively extract its limited oil deposits with fracking and won’t go back to nuclear power. There’s plenty of oil up near the arctic and across the Atlantic ocean.
Had it not been for the American Lend-Leas Program, the Wehrmacht would capture the Caucasus oil field and cutting the USSR off from 90% of its oil at the time. This alone would greatly limit the Rape Army’s ability to resist German blitzkrieg.
Lend-Lease subsequently made another significant contribution to the Russian vehicle stock and provided the basic designs for postwar production.
Vehicles supplied under Lend-Lease to Russia included:
– 43, 728 jeeps & 3,510 amphibious variants – 25, 564 1/4-ton trucks – 218, 664 1/2-ton trucks – 182,938 2 1/2-ton trucks – 586 2 1/2-ton amphibians – 814 5-ton trucks – 2,784 special-purpose trucks – 792 Mack 10-ton cargo trucks – 1,938 tractor trailers – 1,000 spare engines
The T-54 tank was widely dispersed by early 1972. It possessed a modified Christie-type suspension from the T-44 and previous T-34, subsequently based on the BT-7, BT-5 and BT-2 (the original license built model of the M1930 “Christie”).
– The GAZ trucks on the Ho Chi Minh trail came from the Ford-built Gorki plant. – The ZIL trucks on the Ho Chi Minh trail came from the Brandt-built plant. Both plants were equipped with new American machinery while the Vietnamese War was in progress. – The amphibious PT-76 tank is manufactured at Volgograd–in a factory built by eighty U.S. firms.
This is called “peaceful trade” by the mystics in Washington.
As the material presented in this book will show, the “arsenal for revolution” was built by Western firms and has been kept in operation with “peaceful trade.” When all the rhetoric about “peaceful trade” is boiled out, it comes down to a single inescapable fact–the guns, the ammunition, the weapons, the transportation systems that killed Americans in Vietnam came from the American-subsidized economy of the Soviet Union.
The trucks that carried these weapons down the Ho Chi Minh trail came from American-built plants. The ships that carried the supplies to Sihanoukville and Haiphong came from NATO allies and used propulsion systems the [American] State Department could have kept out of Soviet hands–indeed, the Export Control Act and the Battle Act, ignored by State legislatures, required such action.
The only other route for these supplies was by rail across Siberia and China. But Soviet locomotives and railroad-operating equipment have also been traced to U.S. and European origins.
Ho chi minn trail they used trucks REALLY Lets reverse this high speed trains , sorry you have none . free health care oops sorry about that I forgot .
Russia—universal health care, state paid mandatory parental leave, tuition free universities amerika has ghettos populates by shallow automatons
Retarded copy paste nonsense and clueless Mickey Mouse bullshit for brainless morons like you crazy loser piece of shit. In reality overall allied (both UK&US) aid represented only 4 percent of Soviet production for the entire war. The bulk of the weapons and other materials arrived in the Soviet Union after 1943. when the war was already decided. It was decided in front of Moscow in december 1941. (go to hell and ask Hitler and Keitel you stupid fucking animal). 90% of German military casualties were in the East, American biggest contribution to the war is incinerating civilians in Hamburg, Cologne, Dresden… they even failed to defeat Japan until Soviets intervened and in 3 weeks took more territory than US/Uk in three years. Moron.
Of course Americans made up moronic stories how for the first time in human history trading with someone is more important than fighting the enemy. USSR exported gold to the US so what you moron? US supplied Japan with 90% of its oil until 1941. so what moron? German war industry was dependent on Swedish iron supply, Germans also traded with Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, so I guess it was Sweden and Spain who defeated French army? hahaha. You incredibly stupid inbred mentally diseased imbecile raped by your uncle Joe one time too many. Stop spamming garbage and go take the knee before your black boyfriend. Or even better: eat shit and go to hell.
You still try to sell those outdated propaganda versions made by Stalin & Co.
Your 4% are as infected as they can be. You paid for and after that was given high quality.
there came cars and jeeps because Yiur factories for trucks was bombarded away by the nazis. You got clothe because You had none. You were given second class tanks, because Stalin had given them away to Hitler for nothing.
And a lot more…
USA and the Briits were the ones bombarding the german production and its producers away. Not You.
It also was USA which defeated Japan.
Here You of course ignore that most of the world USA included was in Chamberline mode until 1939. In 1938 USA only had 400.000 bad or non equipped soldiers. Most of them was second class as well.
But UUSR made millions of soldiers from 1930 and many more and qwar production in extra sharp war mode.
West also lost not so many soldiers. The reasons was they were not spendables as seen in WW1. Montgommery was there. Patton was there too.
So many million russians died for nothing. So dont lie about it next time Buddy Hill Billie. It makes no sense to write things already was decided. It wasnt.
Australia defeated Japan, America helped a bit. And the Russians were coming through manchuria, that’s why the yanks dropped the bomb ,they didn’t want Russia to get there first
halfwit nazi jens—USSR defeated both Germany and Japan…your senility amuses
false tranny moron jens—the reason fewer died in Europe is because you are cowards—when nazis drove into France trashmark etc you obsequiously sucked their penises and swallowed their sperm…you have zero self respect, honor–no morality–no integrity—you and midge the same—pitiful nazi atheists
poko molo moron midge suffers from PTSD—but no psychiatrist can treat her senility
poko midge molo multi infarct dementia—only 15% of lend lease promised to USSR provided…when poky lips moving she is lying
Thye and we see no scam in this. In windy areas like Denmark we 200 days a year easy cover 50% of Our electricity.
So building out like that is cheeper and cleaner even 100% is a little far away. By that we also easy casn cover electricity for cars 200 days a year.
moron danes pay more for electricity than all Europe —your senility is incurable
inferior loser nazi poko molo moron no brain to wash references Wik—CIA-pedia lies…not enough carck in your idaho trailer park….farcical peasant—no parents only lgbt tranny ex bf
Or Germany would require Canada to return the rebuilt Siemens Energy turbine pumps to the Nord Stream 1 pumping station Portovaya the problem would not be solved overnight because it takes time to get them reinstalled and tested but it would be a step in the right direction to getting EU Citizens cooking and heating resources. Read on another website that Germany has recently exempted LNG from their list of carbon fuels but does not answer the whole, what, where and how they are going to supply LNG unless Canada releases the pumps Siemens Energy Canada rebuilt. Portovaya is reportedly running on backup pumps with zero backup pumps in stock. So when those pumps come time to change out for rebuild by Siemens Energy, you can expect another reduction in LNG to Germany to occur IF Canada does not allow the rebuilt pumps to be shipped to Portovaya for re-installation.
And you can bet the Russians will be enforcing strict union rules with a 6 hour day including a one hour lunch, 2 half hour breaks, a paid half hour walk each way to the lunch room and a half hour safety meeting to start the day … but it’ll get done right.
Its the plan to send 80 million Germans as refugees to Africa and the Middle East.
They expect people there will feed them well and do some extra housing. Its HUT.
germany wants to. let them have it and enjoy it.
I verry enjoy my made in Germany dildo. Verry durable.
If a country /government live in a world of unreality and take their orders from a country who hasn’t got its interests at heart then what do you expect ? “virtual reality ” doesn’t heat your home at night nor keep your electricity supply running .
fake news, everything is ok here, we are wealthy nation and russian propaganda nad psyops will not change this. Russian should mind about their own poverty and fact that 40% of russian citizens still doesnt have acces to toilet inside of house :D hahahahahahahahah happy time ^^
See? That’s what germans have become over the last 77 yrs or so. Whiners with NO guts and NO pride. Chirping like a chick instead of standing up. Most of the german males would choose to be a mohel rather then fight for germany. Haven’t you been on your knees long enough goyim?
This wouldn’t be a problem if Germany put pressure on Canada (who has the sanctions in place to not return the turbine pumps to Portovaya).
According to Germany they have and its being sent there -but unreality continues Ukraine has appointed a Beauty consultant as the new “European integration minister ” –you couldn’t make it up I am starting to believe the posters who say he is “high ” on drugs.
Heard, but not read, about the new integration minister. Don’t know about the the new integration minister but Zelenskyy admitted to using cocaine to get get him through the day. It wouldn’t surprise me if zelenskyy didn’t choose someone with the same drug habit.
Gey fucked German Jewish vassal state.
Did it to yourselves fcking dummies.What you were has been erased by the zio s and now Germany has NO pride and NO honor. You have been trained so well you even hate yourselves.
They are learned by Putin there are a Nobel Price for bad excuses.
Obviously the policies of not opening the pipeline and of sanctioning Russia are hurting all of Europe’s people and industry. Obviously the policies of zero fuel are RIDICULOUS. Obviously the question should be, why is Germany and so much of the world continuing with the policies which invariably create this state of affairs?
😉👍 SouthFront says I have already given you a ➕ but it has not registered. Germany has recently been evaluating their energy situation but it appears to be mostly political. They have removed LNG & Nuclear energy from the list of carbon based fuels. What they have not done is confront Canada as to why they will not allow Canada Siemens Energy to return German Siemens Energy’s LNG turbine pumps, rebuilt in Canada, so they can be reinstalled at the Portovaya pumping station to increase LNG flow to Germany. The Portovaya backup turbines are installed and once those turbine pumps reach their scheduled time limit for rebuild Germany can expect a further reduction in LNG supply unless Canada removes sanctions on the rebuilt turbine pumps. This is child’s play by various government heads and the people taking the beating are the citizens.
I see no children in this. I see russian stupididsme of the worst according Ukraine and other things.
Thasts not true. Russia for many years has been best to the price.
You must be very censured not knowing why.
moron tranny jens nazi—all EU economies contraction—Russia growing thanks to lgbt sanctions…is tranny jensy traumatized? thanks to you idiots Russian reserve fund in creased 13 billion euros May, 14 billion euros June….moron amerikans have driven up cost of oil gas w sanctions you penis brain
jens very stupid—Russia does not need Europe—we now sell vast amount of gas oil whet etc in Asia, to India, Africa, etc at 50-100% more than before sanctions….the idiot nazi poko molo again wrong
What “Germany”? Occupied Bundesrepublik Yankistan. US has 100+ military bases there. BRD has 0 in the US. Vassals. Let them their US masters give gas, they are full of it.
The US refused to sign a peace treaty with Germany in 1945 and this has allowed the US to dictate what Germany does in Geo Political terms.
Its time for the Germans to purge the zionists and US troops from Germany.
If they do not do this, the jew Morgenthau plan of 1945 could finally be adopted and create an Agrarian economy Germany and the complete destruction of German engineering.
The jews have long wanted to cripple Germany, just as the UK has always coveted the vast Russian homeland.
Germans are like boy scouts who love their rapist anglo-saxon masters.
Lol, very true.
USSR is same seize as Spain in this.
The EU idiots really should stop snapping their fingers and tap dancing at the orders of nato and biden.
We are not iddiots. We msut be do somthing right. We have a much highr livingstandard and even lives longer too.
Sure. We are united in Nato as well as EU. But we have chosen that Ourself.
You have no real contact to how the proletars mainly has a much better time then in RuskiSnutskiBardutski. You are not allowed. You get us served as a purtin propaganda farce.
By the way the dollar collapsed three times last week too.
you are a m moron nazi—the lowest stars of living on earth except anglos—you consume more anti-submit to rectal depressants per capita than all nations except anglos—USA #1 moron dane standard of living is paying 70% of earnings to government—in your submissive dictatorship you must have rectum used by amerikan lgbt
Is Your partly paint colorisation for white trash dry.
https://www.telesurtv.net/news/canada-rusia-alemania-turbina-gazprom-20220710-0018.html
Putin has gas. He is a blimp.
Time for Germany to regain its sovereignty from the banking parasites who pushed them into two world wars and have been leeching off their once great nation for decades.
Germany claims to be a democracy and in a democracy the majority rules. A government is a representation of its citizens. A majority of German citizens voted the idiots into power so one can’t feel sorry for the Germans; they get what they voted for.
Thats right. Many cant even that.
That and other changes are very expected. No need to use a whole bible about it. Germany acts and are able to. Thier problems might in winter 22-23. Then things are solved but in a higher level for lectrity and warming up.
Here its almost always written as the enemies are more stupid then themself and sitting ducks.
nazi idiot farcical—toothless lgbt tranny no longer can tolerate you—cumming to SF for sexual pleasure…
The US and Britain are causing this, and Germany is paying for it
Praying Russia doesn’t turn the gas back on to Germany. Why turn it back on if they are supplying weapons to Ukraine.
stupefied anglo atheists farcical—only read comic books “all of New Testament reflects Hebrew thinking, except Paul–greek thinking”. Frederick Schleimacher (devout Lutheran) “a Christian can never hate a Jew; this is one of the advantages of Christianity”. Nicolai Berdayaev. (devout orthodox Christian)
Agreed with Yuri. More than 15 years ago while inquiring about real facts of Initial Christianism of I II C.E i realize all first Christians and Priests were all Jews and Rabbines…. After that I agreed with F. Nietzsche thoughts about Christianism.
Die Linke fell short of 5% in the recent elections and there’s no sign of social uprising yet… social peace is under control for the time being, what is not under control is economic survival: a US-controlled Germany is doomed to have to destroy its productive economy. After all the USA does not need a strong Germany anymore… and apparently Germans don’t need it either (or do not realize they do).
Will the Euro Peons finally grow some cajones, take to the streets, lynch the ruling filth, euthaniZe the oligarchy and take back their freedom? Not yet but when Oma and Opa die froZen in their tenements as STASI Erika’s migrant hordes run rampant and loot Aldi and Co clean then maybe…just maybe a few Germans might wake up, if they are not already dying from their triple covaid$ death squirt.
Get ready for General Winter from the East because Dark Winter is just a pussy.
To Odessa and an end to Natostan slash the angloZionaZi empire of filth
Z
Time to support Operation Z in Germany (and across NATO countries). Waste gas and power as much as possible. Make sure you leave hot taps running in all public buildings, offices, bars etc. Charge up your mobile at work. Take twenty-minute showers at the gym. Anything to drain power from the reserves before winter.
Joseph Borrell is the worst old guy you can listen to… even worst than Old Pedo Biden… they are insane so dont listen to them