German Greens to Ration Energy, Sanction Home-Owners from 2024 Onwards

According to Legacy Media, Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) Prepares Rationing, to take effect as early as next year

Mar 03, 2023

Another one from the best Germany that ever existed; as always, translations and emphases mine, and so are the bottom lines.

The Heating Hammer [Heizhammer] of Robert Habeck (53, Greens) will Drive Demand for Electricity in Germany Even Higher!

By Felix Rupprecht and Jan W. Schäfer, Bild Zeitung, 2 March 2023 [source]

Because of the planned ban on oil and gas heating, there will be up to ten million additional heat pumps, for example. These pumps run on electricity.

Economics Minister Habeck and his top energy manager Klaus Müller (50, head of the grid agency) already fear an overload of the grids. From January 2024, it should therefore be possible to ration electricity for heat pumps and electric cars. That’s what it says in a paper from the grid agency.

So will the state soon decide how much electricity I get?

‘Not the state, but the grid operators will decide which households will have their electricity rationed’, says Prof. Manuel Frondel (58) from the RWI Institute: ‘That's a real planned economy.’

[Two things: first, I’m so glad we ‘downsized’ the state in the Neoliberal Era (since the 1970s), so, when the rationing occurs, it’ll be via ‘market mechanisms’ or ‘regulatory agencies’, i.e., once or twice removed from parliamentary oversight or public accountability. Second, all economies are planned, but the question is who does the planning in terms of oversight and accountability: as it stands, the planning will be done by technocrats without either (h/t to Ron for spotting the typo)]

Frondel demands that there should be compensation for rationing in the future [UBI, here we come]. Stefan Müller (47, CSU) to BILD: ‘This energy policy is turning Germany into a developing country.’

Even Habeck advisor Prof. Jens Südekum (47) believes that customers will think twice about buying heat pumps or electric cars if they have to fear that they will suddenly run out of electricity. That would be ‘a disservice’ to the energy transition [what a genius].

The homeowners’ association, ‘Haus&Grund’, even fears surveillance of households [gee, I wonder why…we’ve already had some news item on that matter over here in Norway, but I cannot find the link right now: so-called ‘smart meters’ are mandatory over here, and these concerns are real]. Habeck’s proposed heating law is ‘the prerequisite for hot water and heating to be controlled remotely by grid operators in the future’, association head Kai Warnecke (50) told BILD.

Resistance is also rising in the [fake-libertarian] FDP: ‘I don't think much of renovation obligations and state monitoring requirements for heating’, said parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr (45) [he’s saying the FDP might not vote for this law].

Up to 18 months waiting time for a heat pump!

The government is betting on heat pumps—but if you need one, it can take a long time… [freezing for freedom is, of course, meant literally]

BILD wanted to know: how fast can I get a heat pump? The result of an enquiry among major suppliers (including Viessmann, LG, Bosch):

Shockingly, the waiting time for a modern devices is already between 6-12 months on average. According to the German Heat Pump Association (BWP), you currently have to wait up to 18 months for a pump. The BWP advises: ‘If possible, long-term planning for heating replacement is therefore advisable.’

Bottom Lines

This madness will continue, in all likelihood as long as these idiots run the country. Yet, even if one would get rid of the current gov’t, odds are that their successors won’t be much, if any, better.

The incompetence by former children’s book author Habeck and his ilk is astonishing. Next to these people, it’s obvious that ‘the private sector’ looks stellar in terms of competence and accomplishment.

Alas, it isn’t: there’s the revolving door between gov’t and the private sector, and on top of it are the regulatory agencies that will get the final say. They are recruiting their staff from among the lowest rungs of the academic diploma mills formerly known as universities. Same as with the pharmaceutical regulators, by the way.

And they are all for calling the shots, perhaps in part motivated by their own incompetence and inferiority complexes.

As always, there’s going to be ‘winners’ (Norwegian energy producers, for example), but many more ‘losers’. Unfortunately, so far it doesn’t see likely (yet) that the Germans and other Europeans will tar and feather these people and chase them out of town.

Not yet.

Please prepare for the worst.