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CSU regional group leader Dobrindt: Incentive to save should remain
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The CSU in the Bundestag has proposed a model for a gas price cap for three quarters of the respective private heat consumption.
"For private households, it would be conceivable to cap 75 percent of previous gas purchases with a basic price for citizens," said CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt of the "Augsburger Allgemeine".
"Furthermore, the full gas price would have to be paid," said the deputy leader of the Union faction.
"This keeps the incentive to save energy, but heat is also affordable." The state must also intervene in electricity prices.
For a stable energy supply, the amount of energy must also be expanded.
"This is essentially about nuclear energy, but also about more renewable energies, for example about biomass," demanded the CSU politician.
In several debates on Thursday, the Bundestag will deal with the sharp rise in energy prices as a result of the Russian war against Ukraine and social cushioning for the population.
In the first reading, a law is on the agenda with which the coalition wants to alleviate the burden of inflation.
The basic tax allowance, child allowance and child benefit are to be increased.
With changes to the income tax rate, the effects of the so-called cold progression are to be compensated.
This is to prevent purchasing power from falling despite salary increases.
In a current hour requested by the coalition factions SPD, Greens and FDP, the parliamentarians debate the »guarantees of the energy supply«.
The amendment of the Energy Security Act is also on the agenda for the first reading.
In a draft law, the Union is calling for the service lives of the three German nuclear power plants still on the grid to be extended until the end of 2024.
In an application, the left calls for a ban on electricity and gas cut-offs by energy suppliers.
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