Germany To Begin Refining Oil That Doesn’t Exist

September 18, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hurt Feelings Tags: Dependency, Energy, Gas, Germans, Germany, Oil, Pipelines, Putin, Refineries, Renewables, Russia Leave a comment

Once Russia turns off the supply. If it hasn’t already.

Germany takes control of Russian-owned refinery – The German subsidiary of Russian oil giant Rosneft was placed under trusteeship, giving Germany’s federal regulator control of a key source of fuel for Berlin.

The German subsidiary of Russian oil giant Rosneft was placed under trusteeship on Friday, giving Germany’s federal regulator control of the PCK refinery in Schwedt, a key source of fuel for the city of Berlin…

Rosneft Deutschland accounts for about 12% of Germany’s oil processing capacity and is one of the largest oil processing companies in the country, the ministry said.

The Next Berlin Airlift?

September 14, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, History, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Berlin, Dependency, Energy, Gas, Germany, Pipelines, Putin, Renewables, Ukraine Leave a comment

Only without the allies flying everything in. What could possibly go wrong?

Scholz channels Berlin Airlift spirit to gird Germans for winter – Chancellor Olaf Scholz invoked the spirit of the Berlin Airlift on Tuesday to implore Germans that “the seemingly impossible can succeed”, urging them to brace for a tough winter and to rise to the challenge of a shift in energy supply away from Russian gas.

He spoke to business leaders at Tempelhof Airport, which was the focal point of the Airlift between 1948 and 1949, when Western forces flew hundreds of thousands of tonnes of supplies into divided Berlin after the Soviets blocked rail and street access to the city’s Western-occupied sectors.

Sure He Can

September 12, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hideology Tags: Energy, Greens, Pipelines, Renewables Leave a comment

But he can’t keep the lights AND the heat on at the same time. Time to set your priorities, people.

Can Germany’s economy minister keep the lights on this winter?

Memories of postwar squalor revived by Vladimir Putin’s shutting down of Nord Stream 1 pipeline.

“How exciting a night-time power cut can be!”

German Companies Just Aren’t Green Enough

September 8, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Banktruptcy, Business, Dependency, Energy, Energy Crisis, Gas, German, Germans, Germany, Greens, Insolvency, Pipelines, Putin, Renewables, Ukraine Leave a comment

Otherwise they wouldn’t be going broke like that.

Get with the plan and get back to nature already. Let them eat green cake or something.

German economy minister under fire as German companies sound alarm on energy prices – German Economy Minister Robert Habeck faced a backlash on Wednesday for saying he could imagine parts of the economy stopping production due to rising energy prices that German firms say are threatening their existence.

Asked whether he expected a wave of insolvencies at the end of this winter due to companies’ rising energy bills, Habeck said “No, I don’t. I can imagine that certain industries will simply stop producing for the time being.”

German Of The Day: Treppenwitz

September 7, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Humor Tags: Dependency, Energy, Gas, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Nuclear energy, Pipelines, Putin, Renewables, Ukraine Leave a comment

This means “staircase wit,” or a story with peculiar irony.

Like the latest German Green Treppenwitz: When two nuclear power plants are allowed to continue running but not allowed to produce electricity.

Germany to keep two nuclear plants available as a backup and burn coal as it faces an energy crisis brought on by war and climate change – The German government announced its plans to keep the Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim nuclear power plants, both of which are located in the southern part of the country, on a kind of backup status, available only if the country has no other option.

This Gives “Cold War” A Whole New Meaning

September 6, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, History Tags: Demonstrations, Dependency, Energy, Gas, Germany, Greens, Inflation, Pipelines, Protestors, Putin, Renewables, Russia, Ukraine Leave a comment

German government policy has led to the cold (the energy “turnaround,” dependency on Russian gas, etc.) and the German people have been left out in the cold (inflation).

Germans revive Cold War Monday demonstrations amid inflation – Protesters from Germany’s left and the right have called for regular Monday protests against the rising cost of living. These evoke the peaceful revolution in East Germany but also of recent anti-immigrant rallies.

Parties on both the left and right of the political spectrum in Germany have announced a “hot autumn” with regular Monday demonstrations.

German Of The Day: Brennholz

August 29, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Dependency, Energy, Gas, Greens, Language, Oil, Pipelines, Putin, Renewables, Ukraine Leave a comment

That means firewood. Oh, how Green hearts are filling with warmth these days. Firewood warmth. Their policies are finally forcing, I mean convincing their compatriots to get back to Nature with a capital N!

Germans are looking to firewood for energy as natural gas prices soar – Skyrocketing prices for natural gas have Europeans scrambling for alternative energy sources. In Germany, where households face a 480 euro rise in their gas bills, people are resorting to stockpiling firewood.

“New Steps To Ease Energy Price Impact?”

August 28, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Dependency, Energy, Government Wast, Pipelines, Putin, Renewables, Spending, Taxation Leave a comment

After being responsible for creating the problem in the first place? That just means taking away and burning more of the money of the people you’re doing the “easing” for. All “free” stuff is like that.

Germany’s SPD plans new steps to ease energy price impact, document shows – Germany’s ruling Social Democrats (SPD) will propose further measures to help its citizens cope with rising energy prices, including another discounted national transport ticket, a document seen by Reuters showed on Sunday.

Households are facing higher energy costs after the German gas market operator set a levy from October to help utilities cover the cost of replacing Russian supplies.

With energy prices rising following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the government has already introduced two relief packages this year, including a 9 euro ($8.96) transport ticket allowing travel anywhere in Germany that expires on Aug. 31.

The Law Of Unintended Consequences

August 26, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Hurt Feelings Tags: Dependency, Energy, Gas, Government, Greens, Inflation, Pipelines, Putin, Renewables, Taxation, Ukraine Leave a comment

We’re from the government and we’re here to help. Again. Resistance is futile. No force in the universe can stop us from helping you so shut up and let us help you already.

Germany’s latest consumer tax (they keep coming in hot and heavy) was meant to help offset soaring gas prices by helping energy companies in need. A questionable enough undertaking already, I’d say. But now it turns out that billions of these tax euros will be flowing to companies that are not only not in need, they’re making record profits.

We were glad to help. You can thank us later.

I Know, We’ll Stop Lighting Public Monuments!

August 25, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Dependency, Energy, Gas, German, Germans, Germany, Oil, Pipelines, Putin, Renewables, Ukraine Leave a comment

That’ll show that old Putin.

Symbolic gestures are just like wind and solar energy. You know, symbolic gestures?

Germany approves energy-saving measures for winter – The German government has approved a set of energy-saving measures for the winter which will limit the use of lighting and heating in public buildings.

The government aims to reduce gas usage by 2% through the new rules.

Observing Hermann

“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?”

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