Gas levy overturned: Traffic light wants to clear up the chaos with a gas price cap
Created: 09/29/2022, 18:20
By: Jens Kiffmeier
Promises an end to the gas surcharge: Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Greens).
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Tilted - yes or no?
The traffic light has ended the back and forth in the gas levy.
Now there is an alternative: the gas price cap is coming.
Berlin – The gas levy will definitely be overturned: the chaos should end by the end of the week.
This was announced by Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Greens).
In doing so, she was also reacting to the loud demands from the federal states, which insist on the introduction of a gas price cap.
On Thursday afternoon it is clear: the gas price brake is coming and the government is making 200 billion loose.
It is already clear when consumers will benefit from the gas price cap.
Gas surcharge overturned: Traffic light coalition argues about abolishing and introducing a gas price cap
In the past few days there had been a lot of back and forth over the controversial gas levy.
The federal government originally introduced the instrument in order to stabilize energy suppliers threatened with bankruptcy during the gas crisis.
From October, according to the plan, consumers should pay around 2.4 cents extra per kilowatt hour.
After the nationalization of Uniper, many experts from politics consider the double burden on taxpayers to be inappropriate, which is why the gas levy was overturned by Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) before it was introduced.
Habeck had not yet been able to agree on the exact procedure with Finance Minister Christian Lindner on Tuesday.
Gas surcharge tilts for gas price cap: Stephan Weil (SPD) puts pressure on the Lower Saxony elections in 2022
The federal states had also put pressure on.
Above all, Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD), who wants to be re-elected on October 9th in the 2022 Lower Saxony elections.
He wanted to tip the gas surcharge by then and instead announce relief to the citizens.
Against this background, Weil already presented a concept for the introduction of a gas price cap.