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 does not want domestic fracking gas, the increased use of biogas is also scorned and nuclear energy (beyond April 2023) anyway – and then spilled Robert Habeck bitter tears about 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 “solidarity” has Berlin actually been with the partners in recent years, who desperately asked us not to Putin and deliver to its pipeline?
That too the former chancellor, who got us into trouble, comes back from retirement with smart-ass tips on how to deal with Moscow, is annoying enough. However, the energy policy odyssey of the present is fatal for the future of the industrial location responsible government. 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 the 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. More impressive would have been the green cannot convict themselves of cheating. To Lower Saxony election in three days you’re clinging to the fiction that you can afford the luxury of shutting down Germany’s most modern reactor in Emsland in three months. Another maneuver that proves: For the Greens, the worst crisis since the war first the party and then the country.
Georg Anastasiadis