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EUGermany's energy saving rules come into force - In response to rising energy prices and dwindling oil and natural gas imports from Russia, Germany is launching a set of binding measures to reduce energy consumption nationwide. Here's what this entails.
In response to rising energy prices and dwindling oil and natural gas imports from Russia, Germany is launching a set of binding measures to reduce energy consumption nationwide. Here's what this entails.
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Germany is imposing regulations to reduce electricity and energy consumption
In Germany, prices for gasoline and public transport surged on September 1st, as government subsidies expired. The price for natural gas — which half of all households use for heating — and for electricity has skyrocketed and food prices are affected by rising inflation.
The Energy Saving Ordinance comes into force today for six months. This is what it entails:
Retail stores may no longer keep their doors open throughout the day to reduce electricity consumption for air conditioning when it is hot outside — and for heating on cold winter days.
Public buildings and monuments have to go dark at 10 p.m.
Illuminated advertising must be switched off after 10p.m., with only a few exceptions. If advertisements serve traffic safety, they remain switched on, for example, at railroad underpasses. Street lamps also remain on, and store windows may continue to be illuminated.
Monuments and other buildings may no longer be illuminated at night. At least not for purely aesthetic reasons. However, emergency lighting will not be switched off, and illumination is permitted for cultural events and public festivals.
In public buildings, halls and corridors will generally no longer be heated, and the temperature in offices will be limited to a maximum of 19 degrees. In places where heavy physical work is performed, temperatures will be even lower in the future. However, the restrictions do not apply to social facilities such as hospitals, daycare centers, and schools, where higher air temperatures are essential for the "health of the people who spend time there," according to the Economy Ministry.
Cutting back on warm water. Likewise, in public buildings, instantaneous water heaters or hot water tanks should be switched off if they are mainly used for washing hands. Exceptions are made for medical facilities, schools, and daycare centers. Some cities go even further. There, the showers in swimming pools and sports halls will remain unheated.
Private pools may no longer be heated with gas and electricity, except for rehab centers, recreational facilities, and hotels. The new regulations will initially apply until the end of February.
A second set of rules will come into force in October, apply for two years, and stipulate longer-term energy-saving measures. For example, all owners of buildings with a gas heating system must have a heating efficiency checkup.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck from the environmentalist Green Party says he expects the measures to reduce gas consumption "by around two, two and a half percent" and calls it a "small but indispensable contribution."
Though you can't insult them through any historical reference. Call most any German a Nazi, he will fall right into whatever line you want him to to deny it. Doesn't work with Californians per se. Maybe if you called them a racist, but Cali is pretty diverse politically despite San Faggotisco and LA mostly speaking for them. Even though they hosted concentration camps. Well, uh, anyway. LMAO.
The best part about this is the offices can’t get warmer than 19 degrees, so every german office worker male is going to have to listen to bitching about how cold the women in the office are. Forever.
How much illumination even costs that you need to cut down on it? Also it's a matter of days before they catch the the elites not only not obeying any part of it, but being so wasteful as to offset anything forced on the common man.
The government is acting so fucking retarded right know here in Europe that i cant believe they aren't doing this on purpose, there must be some thought behind this dance of insanity and the destruction of Western Europe as a whole. I think if you want to know how Hitler rose to power pay close attention to the near future because there is no way this gonna have a happy ending.
The best part about this is the offices can’t get warmer than 19 degrees, so every german office worker male is going to have to listen to bitching about how cold the women in the office are. Forever.
“A second set of rules will come into force in October, apply for two years, and stipulate longer-term energy-saving measures. For example, all owners of buildings with a gas heating system must have a heating efficiency checkup.”
Apply for 2 years and have longer-term plans afterwards? Ladies and Guntlemen, this is not being done because of Russia, this is the start of a green new normal. Russia can collapse tomorrow and go full globohomo, but Germany will still shoot itself.
Aren’t parts of Northern China so short on water that shower vouchers are rationed? I can see something like that but with heating as well in the future.
The best part about this is the offices can’t get warmer than 19 degrees, so every german office worker male is going to have to listen to bitching about how cold the women in the office are. Forever.
Our politicians (especially those fags on the green party) are so blinded by their ideology, thinking that they could be on the forefront of a new green age. But everybody around them is laughing at them and even the times says that they are dumb fucks.
But nope, we need to have the moral high ground. Everybody needs to freeze and everyone has to be locked again because of the virus.
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