German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/197,
p. 24839.
Right honorable
Herr President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
Herr
Minister, may I take you at your word? With you, no tax increases? Have I correctly
understood that? Yes, very nice, very good. That, I believe, is the correct
way.
Yet, on the
remark that declining electricity prices would be a problem: It is not. It is
not a problem if the stock market price declines. That is only a problem if we
find ourselves in a planned economy. Unfortunately, we do find ourselves in a
planned economy, and that might by all means be a problem because all is
inter-connected. Then one must turn here and there instead of engaging in the
market and allowing the market mechanism to work. If prices decline for the
consumers, then that is only good, ladies and gentlemen.
The Tesla
firm is building a plant in Brandenburg and it is also building on a plant site
with an electricity supply. There will also be erected a natural gas power
plant. Why? Because this firm can no longer rely on the German electricity
supply. That is unfortunately so. Here, the energy transformation certainly
destroys our secure electricity supply and that is a sign of poverty, ladies
and gentlemen.
Timon Gremmels (SPD): The energy transformation creates workplaces! Workplaces viable for the future!
The chief of the Tesla firm, Herr Elon Mūsk is moreover a realist.
Ulli Nissen (SPD): Do you have muscle cramps?
Musk, yes, of
course; I beg your pardon. – He has expressed himself in favor of the nuclear
energy of the future. He manufactures E-mobility, yet knows quite precisely that
renewables also do not suffice. He therefore correctly states that we need
nuclear energy. He is naturally right in that, ladies and gentlemen. Energy
contributes to our progress.
Progress in
energy production consists of reducing the land use per energy unit of energy
production and to continually increase the harvest factor. That will thus
increase the intensity. We may only achieve that with a more modern energy
production, thus only with nuclear power, ladies and gentlemen. The effect of
this is that we have an ever better energy generation system and, among other
things and besides other aspects, that the energy of third-world countries is
also of good value.
We unfortunately adopt another way: Our energy becomes ever more expensive. Yet, in Africa for example, that is for people a factor. The number of people who live in extreme poverty does not diminish on its own. Plainly it is also on account of inexpensive energy, which those who here want to promote the energy transformation want to withhold from them.
Timon Gremmels (SPD): Tell that to the people in Fukushima!
Dear friends,
Andreas Mattfeldt (CDU/CSU): Let us refrain from “friends”.
in the budget we continually read of the subvention for E-mobility. Yet what does that mean, “the subvention for E-mobility”? That means: The subvention of consumption. If anyone wants to drive an E-auto, then let that be allowed to him. Yet if we now thereby also support his interest in a purchase, and give him money for that, then that contradicts the market economy, ladies and gentlemen.
No, we should instead demand a yield. We should demand, instead of subventions, energy concepts for the the future and our money there well invest. That can only be nuclear energy. The Russians have ships with nuclear power plants which they can bring everywhere.
Andreas Mattfeldt (CDU/CSU): Here again speaks the friend of the Russians!
The Chinese have managed a nuclear fusion for ten seconds. We unfortunately will be technologically dependent and this unfortunately is reflected in this budget: That it is not viable for the future. Thus must we unfortunately reject it.
Vice-president Hans-Peter Friedrich: Please come to an end.
Our proposal
is to make Germany strong for the future, to make it technologically strong and
to again invest in research in nuclear energy.
Thank you.
Timon Gremmels (SPD): Mask on!
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