German Bundestag, April 29, 2022, Plenarprotokoll 20/32, pp.
2916-2917.
Esteemed President. Valued colleagues.
The draft law put forward is nothing other than your
admission that the energy policy of Chancellors Schröder and Merkel has failed.
In these 23 give-away government years of the SPD, Union, FDP and Greens,
Germany’s outstanding energy supply, with its reliable and well-priced energy,
was wantonly destroyed by you. You have thus brought this country’s citizens
and businesses to a situation of endangered livelihoods and Germany to a great
dependence on a foreign power. It would simply clarify whether it is a matter
of pure stupidity or of betrayal.
With Corona and the war in the Ukraine, you seek to steal
away from your responsibility. In that regard, the Wall Street Journal already in 2019 – thus, before Corona and long
before the Russian invasion – judged that your energy policy is the world’s
dumbest. To where has this – your – dumb energy policy led us?
Timon Gremmels (SPD): To a new level!
To inflexible electricity production markets and expensive
end consumer prices.
A brief example: From 2010 to 2012, the natural gas price in
Germany rose approximately 40 percent. As a result, the generation of
electricity from gas was reduced by half, combined with a corresponding
increase in electricity generated from coal. The electricity producers thus
changed from expensive gas to coal of good value and thus avoided passing on
the increase of gas prices via the electricity to the end consumers. That is
called “market economy”.
Let us quickly jump to the year 2021. Again, the gas price
is extremely high. Yet how fares the electricity production from gas? At a
record level, because your long-term subsidized scrap-electricity from
renewables in 2021 still does not deliver, but a switch to coal is no longer
possible because irresponsible acting adherents of a climate voodoo sect have
passed a withdrawal from coal law. As a result of that, expensive gas continues
to generate electricity and thereby drives up the gas price. You bear the blame
for that. You have buried diversification in the electricity production branch
by means of your withdrawal decision. You have abolished the market economy in
the energy sector.
You now repair the aforementioned law; since gas becomes
scarce in Germany. But one moment: So scarce, Herr Krischer, can gas in Germany
certainly not be, since this government, for weeks and months, undertakes
nothing to reduce electricity generation from gas in Germany, by which more
electricity from coal is obtained or by which more electricity from nuclear
energy is produced.
Timon Gremmels (SPD): Then where does the uranium come from? Mein Gott!
Since what do Poland and Bulgaria actually say to that you
continue to generate electricity from valuable gas, just because you refuse to
make use of coal and nuclear power for electricity generation? Thus, say yes to
German coal and say yes to nuclear power in Germany!
Now your draft law lays down how and when you are able to
place under trusteeship and/or expropriate owners of critical infrastructure.
The required condition for that reads – cite: When service orders are not
filled by the energy sector and an impairment of the supply security threatens.
– Congratulations, Herr State Secretary! You can thereby on the first day this
law takes effect place under trusteeship or expropriate all wind and
photovoltaic facilities in Germany; since these never satisfactorily fulfill
their “energy sector service orders” and they permanently endanger the supply
security in Germany.
Timon Gremmels (SPD): Idiocy!
But all your state planned economy brings simply nothing to
this issue. It is namely a matter of a systemic failure of these low-value
methods of energy production. The AfD has ever forewarned of this. Now sprouts
the seed of the energy transition, which is to say: No, it still does not
sprout; it just germinates. For the citizens, this means exploding costs and an
insecure supply,
Timon Gremmels (SPD): The renewable energies lower the costs!
while the energy transition lobby – it absolutely howls, the
energy transition lobby – will now be fed with the taxpayers’ money. Your draft
law changes nothing of that. Your failures may be summarized in three terms:
Energy transition, withdrawal from nuclear, withdrawal from coal.
Timon
Gremmels (SPD): Yes, exactly! Sehr gut!
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