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Five and a half million Germans could not heat their homes sufficiently in 2022 due to lack of money (www.destatis.de)
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[–] [email protected] 135 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Thanks Merkel for keeping us dependent on russian gas.

And thanks all the peoplethat voted against efforts to move to renewables, continue to block themand opposed a law that would transition us away from fossil heating.

Also the sale of Oil and Gas heating skyrocketed this year, because of panics that it might be banned soon to install new ones under the new law. The law specified something like 2027, but the German idiot never lets facts get in the way of his Angst and panic pushed by right wing media and politics.

The issue is that the progressive side warned that this will happen and it will get worse as the prices of fossils have to increase. But the conservative majority in Germany wants to get fucked, as long as they can continue fucking the planet, because that is what they always did and identify with.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

And thanks all the people that voted against efforts to move to renewables, continue to block them and opposed a law that would transition us away from fossil heating.

I believe those people are called "conservatives".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it were only the conservatives. The liberal party and the social democrats aren't better in any way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You seem to associate “conservative” with the Union only but SPD and FDP leaderships are also quite conservative in many regards.

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