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Katrin Göring-Eckardt (archive picture from March 2020)
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Suppliers are raising prices, industrial groups are threatening production stops: The energy crisis is causing problems for companies - and more and more private households.
Green parliamentary group leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt therefore calls for rapid state support for low-wage earners so that they can cope with the sharp rise in energy costs.
She told the "Bild am Sonntag": "We need short-term help for everyone who is particularly affected by rising energy costs due to low incomes." Those who commute to work by car usually have no other choice.
"Local public transport is often too poorly developed and most of them cannot yet afford a new electric car."
The state must "also enable low-wage earners and benefit recipients to absorb such short-term price peaks."
In the medium term, climate protection could "go easy on the wallet" because it would reduce dependency on imported oil and gas.
Katrin Göring-Eckardt is a member of the “Children, Family, Seniors and Youth” working group in the traffic light negotiations.
dpa / vet