The Germans would burden private consumers with the effects of the sanctions.
In Germany, the fear is justified, because - quite simply - you can run out of gas. Earlier, the German daily newspaper Die Welt wrote that RheinEnergie will more than double the price of residential gas in Cologne from 7.87 cents gross to 18.30 cents per kilowatt hour. They added: with an annual consumption of 10,000 kilowatt hours, this means 1,000 euros more annual gas costs for households. Welt also reported that other local gas providers in the country will increase gas prices by roughly 50 percent starting in the fall.
Now a new article from Die Welt reveals that according to the head of the German Bundesnetzagentur,
if private consumers do not reduce their gas consumption by 20 percent - much more than the one mentioned so far - there could be a gas shortage as early as December
in the country.
Klaus Müller, head of the Federal Network Agency, therefore sees only one way to prevent gas shortages in the winter: private households must make huge savings. In addition, according to him, foreign gas transport should be reduced and he is also concerned about the mass procurement of heaters.
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