Marc Bernhard, February 10, 2023, Electricity Meters and Surveillance

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/86, pp. 10290-10291.

Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.

Imagine, your electricity service knows when you get up, when you go to bed, whether you are alone at home, when you cook what you eat and what you watch on television.

            Till Steffen ( Greens): What is that for complete rubbish?

And then also imagine that the electricity service can at anytime without warning turn off the heating and the electricity for e-autos.

            Markus Hümpfer (SPD): That is not right!

            Rainer Kraft (AfD): Ask Herr Müller!

That means: You come home from work glad of your warm dwelling. Which however is cold because for you, on account of electricity rationing, the heating electricity was shut off.

Maik Außendorf (Greens): You need for once use your intelligence and not cool down the level!

So you decide to drive to friends so as to warm up. Yet the accumulator of your e-auto is empty; since for that also the electricity was shut off. You believe this is from a Hollywood end-of-times movie or from George Orwell’s 1984?

            Maik Außendorf (Greens): A bad AfD fantasy, this is!

No, these are the scenarios which this government prepares with this law.

That the intelligent electricity counter, the so-called Smart Meter which the government wants to extensively bring to every household, makes possible the deepest insight into the private life of citizens is even confirmed by a study of your own Federal Research Ministry. Researchers of the FH Münster could with this Smart Meter exactly determine when which household equipment was used and even which television program was watched.

            Timon Gremmels (SPD): What you peek at, I know without a Smart Meter!

How valuable this data is can be seen in that Google is giving consideration to making free electricity available to customers for access to their data.

The government asserts that with Smart Meter electricity costs would fall and the stability of the network would improve. Yet what the government here is actually doing is to shift onto the backs of the citizens the blame for its own failures in its botched energy transition. Since, who  may disconnect all, withdraw from all, and wants to provide for an industrial nation with wind and sun alone, is himself the greatest danger for the stability of our energy supply.

Counter to better knowledge, the Federal government asserts – you too, Herr Habeck, plainly – that with the Smart Meter electricity costs would fall. Yet the Ernst & Young analysis commissioned by your own ministry comes to the conclusion, as can be read word for word in evaluations of your analysis, “that no costs are to be saved in average households with intelligent counters”. It is further said: “Accordingly, the costs considerably exceed the possible savings.” An extensive installation obligation is evaluated in this analysis “as unreasonable”. And consumer protection organizations in States which have already introduced these Smart Meters confirm that as a result costs have even further increased.

What you are thus doing here is to knowingly deceive the people in this country so as to divert from your own total failures in regards the energy transition. According to the federal association of consumer centrals, you thereby expose people to dangers of criminal machinations, since this data can be abused. For the people, this law yields no use, but only harms and risks.  

Simply let the world’s safest nuclear power plants and cleanest coal power plants continue to run! Then we need not at all occupy ourselves today with this entire madness. Do not give Big Brother a chance!

            Michael Kruse (FDP): We give the rightists no chance!

 

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René Springer, February 22, 2023, Foreign Labor and Germany

AfD Kompakt, February 22, 2023.

As if there was not sufficient immigration from Africa, the Federal government now goes personally to Ghana to motivate people to migrate and obtain them for the German labor market. The migration centers, which were actually thought of as for those returning from Europe, shall now be reconstructed as job centers in foreign countries.

In that regard, the reinforced migration from Africa will solve not one, single problem in Germany, but will lead to yet more wage dumping. Why should German businesses pay prosperous wages when at their disposal is a never to be exhausted stream of labor from all the world?

The AfD delegation in the Bundestag posits a clear concept against these neoliberal fantasies of a global labor market: In Germany, raise the at hand potential, qualification and employment of hundreds of thousands of domestic unemployed, and an end to age discrimination in German industries. Yet before all, businesses in Germany need to finally recognize that they most readily obtain qualified and motivated co-workers with reasonable wages.

 

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Sylvia Limmer, February 14, 2023, Combustion Engine Ban

AfD Kompakt, February 14, 2023

The combustion engine ban concluded by the EU Parliament is based on a deception: For years it was asserted that electro-mobility, unlike the combustion engines, would be free of emissions. Yet that is not right, since a lack of exhaust of the e-autos still by far does not make it emission-free. Based on this deception, the way was made ready for a massive distortion of competition in favor of e-autos in the name of the climate ideology. For according to current EU law, massive penalty payments must be paid by auto manufacturers to the EU for excess emissions with regard to the permitted exhaust. With the threat of penalty payments in the billions, even the largest auto manufacturers are tamed and praise the e-auto as the vehicle of the future.

High purchase and operating costs, long charging times, a lack of charging infrastructure, dangers of burning e-autos, a decline of battery performance, critical raw materials like lithium, nickel or cobalt harmful to the environment, and an increasing dependence on countries endowed with raw materials, are therefore hidden. Germany as a business venue, with its strong automobile and supplier industry, thereby rolls toward a catastrophe, hundreds of thousands of workplaces are on the brink. We give away good technology to countries which do not join in this nonsense and thereby only weaken ourselves.

The AfD was and is the only party consistently committed for technology openness and competition in mobility. EVP chief Manfred Weber (CSU) indeed stresses wanting to stop the combustion engine exit, yet what has the Union done in the last years in that regard? Nothing! When Weber speaks of wanting in fact to save the combustion technology, yet at the same time anticipates that electro-mobility belongs to the future, that is revealing and only shows that for the CDU/CSU it is not about technology openness and competition. Only with the AfD is there a preservation of the combustion engine.

 

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