It’s funny. The conservatives and the far right that a lot of people in Germany voted for demonized these things and now many of those voters want it to because it works. Kinda awkward, when your ideology is in the way of a better life for everyone, isn’t it?
They fell for fossil fuel propaganda. Germany is currently very close to some tipping points, which will really hurt the fossil fuel industry. Oil consumption has not gone up much after Covid and is starting to slowly fall again. A huge part of that is that the car fleet is slowly moving electric. Even relatively small changes in EV buying habits, can relatively quickly lower oil demand. It it is structural it becomes a massive issue. That becomes even worse, as Germany has a huge car industry and that turning to EVs would take away a big ally of big oil.
For gas the situation is even crazier. German gas imports halved due to the war in Ukraine. Most of that was just transiting through, but there is also a massive reduction in consumption. Heat pumps are slowly replacing gas heating in the country and a law pushed through by the Greens would basically kill the heating business long term. That is 55% of German gas consumption.
Germany also had a ton of oil based central heating. Most of those systems are going to transition to wood pellet heating. Maybe a little also to heat pumps. But common wisdom currently still is that heat pumps require suitably built houses to make sense. I wonder how much if that is just fossile fuel propaganda and how much is technically true.
It’s funny. The conservatives and the far right that a lot of people in Germany voted for demonized these things and now many of those voters want it to because it works. Kinda awkward, when your ideology is in the way of a better life for everyone, isn’t it?
They fell for fossil fuel propaganda. Germany is currently very close to some tipping points, which will really hurt the fossil fuel industry. Oil consumption has not gone up much after Covid and is starting to slowly fall again. A huge part of that is that the car fleet is slowly moving electric. Even relatively small changes in EV buying habits, can relatively quickly lower oil demand. It it is structural it becomes a massive issue. That becomes even worse, as Germany has a huge car industry and that turning to EVs would take away a big ally of big oil.
For gas the situation is even crazier. German gas imports halved due to the war in Ukraine. Most of that was just transiting through, but there is also a massive reduction in consumption. Heat pumps are slowly replacing gas heating in the country and a law pushed through by the Greens would basically kill the heating business long term. That is 55% of German gas consumption.
Germany also had a ton of oil based central heating. Most of those systems are going to transition to wood pellet heating. Maybe a little also to heat pumps. But common wisdom currently still is that heat pumps require suitably built houses to make sense. I wonder how much if that is just fossile fuel propaganda and how much is technically true.
It is fossil fuel propaganda.
Not the first time this happens either. I remember as far back as people claiming that barcodes were the mark of the beast.