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Minister complains about high gas prices: Robert Habeck takes the citizens for fools

2022-10-06T03:32:36.789Z


Minister complains about high gas prices: Robert Habeck takes the citizens for fools Created: 06/10/2022 05:27 By: Georg Anastasiadis Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis comments on the course taken by Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck in the energy crisis. © Michele Tantussi/AFP/Klaus Haag How hypocritical is a green economics minister who, on the one hand, complains about hig


Minister complains about high gas prices: Robert Habeck takes the citizens for fools

Created: 06/10/2022 05:27

By: Georg Anastasiadis

Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis comments on the course taken by Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck in the energy crisis.

© Michele Tantussi/AFP/Klaus Haag

How hypocritical is a green economics minister who, on the one hand, complains about high prices for US liquid gas and, on the other hand, prevents Germany from becoming less dependent on imported energy?

A commentary by Georg Anastasiadis.

That's what you call chutzpah: the Green Federal Minister of Economics doesn't want domestic fracking gas, the increased use of biogas is also scorned, and nuclear energy (beyond April 2023) anyway - and then Robert Habeck sheds bitter tears over the "moon prices" for American liquid gas.

How stupid does this minister actually think the citizens are?

Habeck could have helped reduce Germany's dependence on US fracking gas long ago

Instead of lamenting the alleged lack of solidarity from our friends, Habeck could have long since helped to reduce Germany's new dependency on US fracking gas somewhat: he could have started up the coal piles in March, for example, so that the gas would not have had to be generated as much as that is now expensively imported from overseas.

And how "solidary" has Berlin actually been in recent years with the partners who begged us desperately not to hand ourselves over to Putin and his pipeline?

It's annoying enough that the former chancellor, who caused our misery, is now coming back from retirement with smart advice on how to deal with Moscow.

However, the energy-political odyssey of the government that now bears responsibility is fatal for the future of the industrial location.

If you want to lower energy prices and save citizens and companies from bankruptcy, you have to eliminate shortages instead of lamenting high market prices and secretly dreaming of a climate paradise.

Nuclear policy: The Greens could not have convicted themselves of fraud more impressively

Typical of Habeck's lack of ability to learn - or is it a lack of sincerity?

– is nuclear policy.

The minister put forward X reasons why continued operation of the nuclear power plants beyond the end of the year was out of the question: no staff, no fuel rods, no security, no electricity problem and so on.

Now all of a sudden it works.

The Greens could not have convicted themselves of fraud more impressively.

Until the Lower Saxony elections in three days, the fiction is being held firmly that one can afford the luxury of shutting down Germany's most modern reactor in Emsland in three months.

Another maneuver that proves: For the Greens, in the worst crisis since the war, the party comes first and then the country.

George Anastasiadis

Source: merkur

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