German Bundestag, May 21, 2026, Plenarprotokoll 2/80, pp. 9558-9560.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
Hurrah, the heating law will be abolished, and everyone can again install what he wants – that is the fairy tale which you of the Federal government want to tell us. Your proposal of a so-called modernization law [Gebäudemodernisierungsgesetzes] is nothing other than Habeck’s heating hammer through the backdoor.
With your Biotreppe [Bio-stair] you obligate the people to operate new construction oil and gas heating with initially 10 percent, later 60 percent bio-gas or bio-oil. Ja, where then shall all the bio-gas and bio-oil at all come from? According to your own statements, you yourselves do not know. The green energy minister from Baden-Württemberg confirms that initially there is not enough of this bio-manure.
You also do not know what this madness will cost, yet proceed on, according to your own testimony, it will be so expensive that, practically, the people will simply no longer be able to afford operating an oil or gas heating. The people thereby remain –
Vice-president Andrea Lindholz: Herr colleague, there is a wish for an interim question from the Union delegation. Do you want to permit it?
Gladly.
Vice-president
Andrea Lindholz: Herr colleague Koller, please.
Hans Koller (CDU/CSU): Many thanks, Herr colleague, that you have permitted the interim question. You indeed have said we ourselves did not know where all the bio-manure shall come from. Have you actually, really spoken with the branch? In this week, the bio-gas council came together, the bio-gas technical associations met and on all sides is clearly confirmed: We have this potential. We have here structures, and we can also service this. Do you not want to know, or does this not suit your ideology?
You should perhaps preferably know your government better. I have put precisely this question to State Secretary Bartel yesterday in the Building Committee. I put to him the question: Where will all of this bio-manure come from? And he then correspondingly said to me: That, we do not know.
Klaus Wiener (CDU/CSU): The branch! Perhaps not him, but the branch!
In the summer there will be a commission which will be
occupied with this theme. This is completely irresponsible, what you are doing
here. You introduce a bio-stair, and do not know where all the fuel shall come
from. That is the reality.
And the green Energy Minister in Baden-Württemberg has
exactly confirmed it: This bio-manure is not on the market. You coax the people
and introduce some kind of stairway into nothing. You will not thereby come to
grips. Stop lying to the people!
Hans Koller
(CDU/CSU): I’ld recommend that to you!
Finally make reasonable Politik for the people out there, that they then can again pay their heating costs!
There is besides: You do not know what this madness will cost, yet thence end in the people will no longer have sufficient money to operate this heating. Thereby remains for the people only the warm pump or distance heating, exactly so as with Habeck.
Not only Habeck’s heating hammer remains practically in force, you worsen the situation for not already today installed oil and gas heating to the point of inability to pay; namely, through the certificate trade in 2028, decided in common by you, CDU/CSU, SPD and Greens, already in the German Bundestag. That is in fact in one and a half years. All experts thence proceed on that the CO2 tax will thus at least be quadrupled to quintupled.
Andreas Lenz (CDU/CSU): Rubbish! AfD experts council, apparently!
Lisa Badum
(Greens): You have the source of the numbers? Nonsense!
In regards gas heating, that leads to a price increase of around 60 percent – just by the CO2 tax. And in regards heating oil, we are speaking of a costs explosion of around 100 percent. Here, the CO2 tax portion will climb from the present 21 cents to then almost 1 euro per litre of heating oil.
Andreas
Lenz (CDU/CSU): That’s just not right!
That means added yearly costs of around 1,200 euros for gas and 1,800 euros for oil.
That is to say: You are worse than Habeck, who simply verboten the people from newly installing oil and gas heating, while you act as if you would leave to the people themselves the free choice to decide which heating they install. At the same time you, however, make oil and gas so expensive that no one can afford it as well, thereby drive the people in fact to the warm pump and thereby force them to expend 100,000 to 150,000 euros for the installation and the necessary reconstruction and insulation measures. Most of all owners and landlords will simply not be able to pay that, and thereby they will have no other choice than either to need to sell their dwelling at far under value, or again install a gas or oil heating.
Because you quite precisely know that many renters can no longer pay the heating costs on account of your CO2 cascade of increases, you now want to defend the renters from your own Politik in which you leave it to the landlord to pay. The landlord in the future shall pay 50 percent of the CO2 tax of their renters, even though they have no influence on the heating consumption. This is nothing other than a bad, immoral contract at the cost of a third party.
And is thereby long since fully clear that the heating hammer is fully ineffective, absolutely ineffective. Since the optimistic accounting of the former Habeck ministry itself proceeds on a yearly savings of just one, single percent of the entire German CO2 emissions, thus the CO2 quantity which China blasts into the air in just five hours. And, for that, you destroy the savings, the old age provision and the prosperity of the people in our country. How insane are you, actually? Had you simply let just the last three nuclear power plants continue to run, we would each year save double as much CO2 as through your entire heating hammer.
Heating law becomes modernization law. Raider is now called Twix, but changes nix!
Lisa Badum
(Greens): Children’s talk by the AfD!
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