September 19, 2022 Sunny
On duty today: Xiao Tuo
Time Night Talk Issue 7
The cold winter in Europe is coming.
In recent days, it began to snow in the Alps, but the heating problem in Europe is still not settled, and the impact of cutting off the natural gas supply from Russia on Europe is increasing.
How to spend this cold winter is a top priority for every European. European countries have made every effort to solve this problem.
In Switzerland, If the heating is turned on at more than 19 degrees Celsius, the maximum penalty will be three years' imprisonment. In addition to prison, a fine will also be imposed.
However, Poland is considering that this winter it may really need to burn garbage for heating, including burning toxic and harmful materials such as tires. Poland's air pollution is already very serious, so the Polish government is considering burning garbage for heating while also considering issuing anti haze masks to the public.
In Denmark, poor families are forced to rent apartments and choose tents for camping; The Finnish government launched a nationwide energy-saving campaign to encourage people to shorten their bath time; and Some people in Britain plan not to turn on the heating all winter 。
The shortage of energy has made Europe, which once stood at the commanding height of environmental ethics, shed its disguise and simply quit, Many countries have restarted coal power generation, and no one has accused coal power of not being clean energy anymore.
It's nothing to restart coal power. The British even started to warm up for the winter Store firewood and plan to carry through the cold winter with the ancient way of burning wood for heating ……
and In order to avoid high energy bills, many Germans went everywhere to collect wood. Some even took down the wooden benches in the park. Businessmen also smell the business opportunity. The supermarkets in Germany sell wood at a high price. A small bundle of firewood costs 3.29 euros, about 22 yuan.
How scary is Germany's high energy bill?
Recently, a couple in the eastern city of Germany received bill The original monthly natural gas expense was 228 euros. A new bill came, which said that the natural gas expense in the last quarter of 2022, October, November and December was 1017 euros, and the natural gas expense in January 2023 was 1017 euros.
Germany's natural gas is a prepayment system. The estimated cost of each month this year is calculated according to the total amount of natural gas or electricity used in the previous year. For example, how much natural gas you used in the previous year is multiplied by the total price of natural gas this year and divided by 12, which is the prepayment cost of natural gas this year.
As early as June this year, a German media published an article that predicted that the German people would not be able to pay their energy bills within three months. It may be that the weather was too hot at that time, making it difficult for German people to prepare for danger in peace. Although they had been prepared, the high amount of bills still came so that Germans were a little caught off guard.
Not only ordinary people but also small and medium-sized enterprises are affected Energy bill 。
A German bakery that started business in 1953 received a reminder bill two days ago, which is the cost of the bill in the past four months. It used to cost 5890 euros a month for natural gas, but now the bill is 75000 euros a month. How much should I pay for four and a half months? 330000 euros. It must be paid within 14 days.
How much does a Chinese milk tea shop in Germany have to pay for energy? The answer is 50000 euros a month. It is said that the manager of this milk tea shop is going to file for bankruptcy to deal with the high energy prices.
According to the data released by the German Federal Statistical Office on September 13, Germany's inflation rate in August was 7.9%. Some German institutions predicted that the energy crisis would push the inflation rate of Germany to about 11% in the first quarter of next year. The high inflation rate may trigger a spiral rise in wages and prices, thus further exacerbating inflation.
Germany, which regards itself as the "leader of the European Union", has experienced high prices that have impacted all aspects of German economic production and life.
An expert from a German think tank said that the rise in electricity and natural gas prices would lead to a 4.1% decline in the purchasing power of private households, the largest decline since the reunification of Germany and Germany. The economic recession will also have an impact on the labor market. The unemployment rate will rise from 5.3% in 2022 to 5.6% in 2023. It is worth noting that the German government has announced to "take over" Rosneft's subsidiaries in Germany, and in the next step, German local energy enterprises may be nationalized.
Last month, when receiving an exclusive interview with German TV, Scholz also said that he was very worried about the social unrest in Germany in winter. When asked if he could guarantee that people would not be frozen in winter, Scholtz did not answer for sure, saying that it depends on many things happening around the world, and Russia's interruption of natural gas supply may be an important factor.
In the 16 years since the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel took office, Germany and Russia have always enjoyed good relations. This also ensures the energy security of Germany and even Europe. But after Schultz came to power, Germany and Russia gradually drifted away. After the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Germany hesitated at the beginning and finally firmly stood on the opposite side of Russia - supplying weapons to Ukraine.
The difficult situation in Europe today is exactly the price that was paid for the choice of sanctions against Russia. The consequences of all this will be paid by the common people all over Europe, because it is unlikely that the top bureaucrats in Europe will suffer from the cold, and only the people at the bottom will cry out for the cold.
Germany's energy crisis is only a microcosm of Europe.
The high energy price is not only unbearable for residents and small and medium-sized enterprises, but also has begun to transmit the impact. Last weekend, Europe was not quiet and protests broke out in many countries.
In Austria, more than 32000 people took to the streets of Vienna and other cities to protest against rising inflation and the failure of the government to solve the cost of living crisis. Thousands of French people protested in Paris against the sanctions against Russia, which led to high domestic energy prices, and demanded that France withdraw from NATO. The same riots have been staged in Germany, the Czech Republic and other countries before.
The people in Europe are under increasing pressure. When it is too late Social unrest is not far away. This winter has just begun.
It can be predicted that this winter will be difficult for Europe.
(Produced by Rednet · Burning Youth Studio)
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