Germans Are Outraged About Home Heating Oil And Gas Boiler Ban
Germans Are Outraged About Home Heating Oil And Gas Boiler Ban
BY TYLER DURDEN
Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com,
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Germans are criticizing a government plan to ban oil and gas boilers and replace them with heat pumps, arguing it is happening too fast and is going to cost a lot of money.
Germany wants to become net-zero by 2045.
To this end, the leftist government announced, it would ban boilers working with fossil fuels, effectively forcing people to switch to heat pumps as the only green-enough option for people with no access to district heating.
The cost of the ban is estimated at over 9 billion euros, or $10 billion, EACH YEAR, until 2028.
After that, according to the Scholz government, costs will drop by almost half, thanks to a ramp-up in heat pump production and a scale-up of wind and solar capacity.
That is total nonsense
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The government is offering financial help to households, to the tune of 30% of the cost of the switch but Germans appear to not be particularly enticed by that offer, because heat pumps do not work EFICIENTLY at low temperatures, when a house needs the most heat
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“People are outraged and furious,” Petra Uertz of the Residential Property Association told the Financial Times.
“They can’t understand why it has to happen.”
“This law affects 66 households. . . and there is enormous disquiet,” according to Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, a senior MP from the liberal Free Democratic Party.
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The FDP is one of the three parties in the coalition government led by Olaf Scholz and it is not a fan of the gas boiler ban.
“We shouldn’t be tying it to a particular date come hell or high water, there are things in it that must be changed first,” Strack-Zimmermann told German media, saying the Green Party’s insistence on passing the ban as law before the summer break was absurd.
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The Green Party, by the way, is losing popular support faster than snow melts in May.
According to the latest figures, as presented by the FT, it is now less popular than the right-wing Alternative for Germany, with a popularity rating of 14%.
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What’s more, the ban has triggered a jump in demand for gas boilers.
The lubricous MANDATES would only come into effect as of January 2024, so if people install oil and gas boilers before the end of 2023, they can keep using them.
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Comment by Dan McKay on May 29, 2023 at 6:12am
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Well, the power from all the new coal plants have to go somewhere.
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on May 28, 2023 at 11:38am
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A 4 trillion debt ceiling increase?
Forget accounting, do we not know arithmetic?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hard-pass-heres-whats-debt-ceilin...
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