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Germany’s Green Energy Policy Hit Households Hard
Canada Free Press ^ | June 10, 2012 | Jack Dini

Posted on 06/11/2012 7:05:15 AM PDT by Twotone

Many people in Germany are no longer able to pay their electricity bills. Skyrocketing electricity prices are making electricity unaffordable for a large number of Germans. The past year over 600,000 households had their power switched off in Germany because they can’t afford the skyrocketing electric bills.(1)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: agenda21; climatechange; electricity; germanyelectricity; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greenenergy
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1 posted on 06/11/2012 7:05:27 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

But they feel good (for doing nothing for the environment). That’s what is important.


2 posted on 06/11/2012 7:08:31 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Twotone

Coming soon to the Obamanation if we fail in November. (although I hear it could be happening in California this summer)


3 posted on 06/11/2012 7:11:38 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: Twotone

“Skyrocketing electricity prices are making electricity unaffordable for a large number of Germans.”

Which is exactly the point of the EnviroNazi agenda.


4 posted on 06/11/2012 7:11:52 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: tcrlaf
Which is exactly the point of the EnviroNazi agenda.

Your Electricity Bill is About to Necessarily Skyrocket [in USA]

5 posted on 06/11/2012 7:17:15 AM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: tcrlaf

They want us to live in caves.


6 posted on 06/11/2012 7:17:30 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: cicero2k

“The government’s planned energy transition was supposed to, among other things, produce environmentally friendly electricity. It turns out, however, that the power gap which was created by the shutdown of eight nuclear power stations, will be largely filled by brown coal.”

How ironic, no nukes = more coal. Stupid govt. results in more polution.


7 posted on 06/11/2012 7:19:10 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: tcrlaf

I wonder if government offices are charged the same rates.


8 posted on 06/11/2012 7:20:13 AM PDT by Pecos (Constitution? Oh, you mean that thing we USED to have.)
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To: tcrlaf

Freezing human beings to death is an excellent way to reduce the population!


9 posted on 06/11/2012 7:21:38 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Twotone

I do not see how the average increase in 3.5 % results in people not being able to pay their bill.

For example, if your bill was $100 and is now $103.50, there must be some other mitigating factor causing the you to not be able to pay it.


10 posted on 06/11/2012 7:24:59 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Twotone

Just like the Japanese...they’ll be turning their nukes back on real soon. Most enviro-idiots like to talk green, until they have to start writing the checks to pay for it. Especially when many of the greenies lose their jobs, because manufacturing is chased out by high energy costs.


11 posted on 06/11/2012 7:25:24 AM PDT by rottndog (Be Prepared....for what's coming AFTER America...)
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To: Twotone

They never learn ...

years ago, Germany introduced a recycling campaign “The Dual System”. Instead of throwing away packaging materials (tins, plastic wrap, joghurt cups ...), they *wash* them then dispose of them in special yellow bags / containers. This is then taken to a recycling center / burned.

Sounds great and they became real masters at it in the hopes of saving money AND doing something for the environment!

Then the law of unintended consequences struck. The local refuse removal & disposal companies, which were paid by quantity / weight suddenly could not cover thier core operational expenses - SO they raised the rates. So now the Germans essentially have been hit twice - additional expense of separating & washing packaging AND additional costs for the removal & disposal of the “rest”.

Now - the electric companies are raising rates because they can’t cover thier core expenses due to the “we must save energy at all costs” meme. So now they pay more for thier light bulbs and most other products, pay additional taxes on energy consumption to stuff holes in the thier Social Security System AND the rates for electricity go UP.

Great Savings, coming to a country near you!


12 posted on 06/11/2012 7:31:14 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: Twotone

Cheap + plentiful energy = freedom.

And vice versa.


13 posted on 06/11/2012 7:33:13 AM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: An.American.Expatriate

The only time I’ve heard of people washing packaging material for recycling was in satire (making fun of the over-the-topness of the whole concept). In the real world, not so much. (Though it’s probably true that a few nutty individuals would do that.)


14 posted on 06/11/2012 7:51:30 AM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: Nowhere Man

WE? So you have figured out to vote for Virgil Goode, too?


15 posted on 06/11/2012 7:52:07 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: woodbutcher1963
For example, if your bill was $100 and is now $103.50, there must be some other mitigating factor causing the you to not be able to pay it.

4.5 Million people receive "Hartz IV" which is about 400€ / month - prices and usage of course vary greatly, but I've seen published averages of between 80 & 100 € / month ...

16 posted on 06/11/2012 7:54:35 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: Moltke
The only time I’ve heard of people washing packaging material for recycling was in satire (making fun of the over-the-topness of the whole concept).

Like Phil Hartman's "Anal-Retentive Chef" on SNL.

17 posted on 06/11/2012 7:54:52 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Twotone

A scene from the play-movie BECKET.

King Henry is caught out in a rainstorm and soaked. He and Becket go to a hovel hovel where King Henry makes demands.

Henry: I want fire and warmth!
Becket: You will find no fire here sire.
Henry: And why is that!
Becket: Each hovel is allowed two measures of wood a year. One stick more and they are hanged.
Henry: My edict?
Becket:Your edict sire.


18 posted on 06/11/2012 7:55:26 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I LIKE ART! Click my name. See my web page.)
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To: Moltke
The only time I’ve heard of people washing packaging material for recycling was in satire (making fun of the over-the-topness of the whole concept). In the real world, not so much. (Though it’s probably true that a few nutty individuals would do that.)

Oh ita quite true - in fact it is even required and you can be fined if caught disposing of unwashed trash in the yellow bags / containers.

19 posted on 06/11/2012 8:03:18 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: MrEdd
WE? So you have figured out to vote for Virgil Goode, too?

Vote for a lifelong democrat? Huh?

Someone please explain how Goode gets so much traction on a conservative website.

20 posted on 06/11/2012 8:06:56 AM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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