Posted on 07/28/2022 3:32:22 PM PDT by george76
Hanover first big city to ban hot water and central heating in public buildings..
Lights to be switched off at night on major buildings like museums and town hall ..
Germans told to expect higher electricity bills and sweeping gas rationing..
Move is a response to Vladimir Putin's gas squeeze which has Europe panicking..
Russian state energy giant Gazprom cut gas supplies to Germany to 20 per cent .
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The Germany city of Hanover has become the first big city in Europe to ban hot water and central heating in public buildings ...
The drastic step comes as Germans have been told to expect sky high electricity bills and sweeping gas rationing measures that will affect their day-to-day lives.
In a sign of things to come, Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony in the north west of the country, will cut off the hot water in public buildings, swimming pools, sports halls and gyms.
Other desperate gas-saving measures include switching off public fountains and blacking out night-time lights on major buildings such as the town hall and museums.
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There will also be a ban on portable air conditioners, heaters and radiators among the general populace
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Germany on the brink: EU's economic powerhouse is heading for recession and energy rationing – with bills tripling – after Merkel ignored warnings Putin could cripple Europe by choking gas supplies
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Despite repeated warnings about the risks of this reliance successive German governments have only deepened it
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Germany is not alone in relying on Russian natural gas to run its economy, with some 40 per cent of EU member state's total gas consumption coming from its eastern neighbour.
But years of deliberate policy-making has made Germany uniquely vulnerable to Russian threats to cut gas flows.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Suck it Nazis
On one of our cruises, there were a load of older tourists from China on the ship. We learned to avoid taking elevators with them. Their clothes smelled of those balls used to prevent moths eating wool clothes. The smell was unbearably strong. Add to that smell of sweat on clothes.
I know of at least two Berlin-based neocon Freetards that think this is just dandy, the stinking bastards.
Same thing is happening in Sri Lanka. It is a warm weather paradise for tourists from Europe. But Sri Lanka went all out green energy and now the economy is so bad, people are attacking government offices with knives and pitchforks.
Trump was right but he was also wrong. Trump led the Germans to believe we’d be there to cover what they wouldn’t be getting from Russia. The Germans would have been just as screwed if they had depended on us. BTW, Russia didn’t shut off anyone’s gas. The Europeans refuse to accept the gas. Screw ‘em.
Like northern Germany doesn’t suck enough already!
They started this problem by launching all kinds of economic sanctions over something that doesn’t involve them. Upon completion of Nordstream 2 they refused to allow it to be opened.
What goes around comes around.
An article yesterday said they need to start old coal plants and build more windmills. I kid you not.
that’s cold...
“those balls used to prevent moths eating wool clothes”
Oh, you mean mothballs?
What about a dark green in a tasteful silk-rayon tropical blend, or a classic white linen?
The idiocy of this situation is remarkable. And they had the gall to insult Trump from time to time. Germany, Trump has all the hot water he needs, I assure you.
Did you ever smell mothballs?
If yes, did you lift up its little legs?
5.56mm
Ah the stone age here they come
“Despite repeated warnings about the risks of this reliance successive German governments have only deepened it”
A blind man could have seen it.
Trump noticed it too.
They shut off their nuke plants.
They were begging for this.
There is no way this isn’t all being engineered.
No problemo. Krauts don’t shower. Stinkiest, filthiest people on earth, even beating out the French.
Its not Russia’s gas crisis. Germans did it to themselves
Just the little sacrifices that must be made to keep Putin from uncovering records in Kiev and spilling the beans about hunter and joes and a host of congress critters prodigal sons malfeasance in the worlds largest money laundromat playground
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