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From the Achse des Guten:
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The "energy transformation" is costing us our freedom

"Paris calls for concession," says the headline. It's about Germany blocking the ban on internal combustion vehicles. It is no wonder that the rulers in France want to push through the ban on internal combustion vehicles. Not only because they have plenty of electricity due to their nuclear power plants, but also because they hope that their carmakers will profit from it.

But that's not it alone, the EU also wants to enforce a compulsory renovation of houses. As part of the "Green Deal", facades are to be insulated, windows replaced and, for example, solar roofs installed throughout Europe in order to achieve a certain energy standard. However, the way it is being implemented puts German homeowners at a clear disadvantage:

"The Commission's draft stipulates that member states define those 15 percent of their buildings that are the worst insulated as Class G - i.e., the lowest category. The other houses and apartments are then to be distributed among the remaining classes F through A.

This is therefore a relative classification. The EU does not want to set rigid, Europe-wide target values, such as for energy consumption in kilowatt hours per square meter. Instead, the classes are based on the condition of other buildings in the respective country.

For countries like Italy, Spain and Greece, this is a great help. After all, the insulation there is often much worse than in Germany, for example, so the need for renovation is significantly higher. And it would be unrealistic to bring all the houses in Greece up to Class D by German standards in the next ten years.

For Germany, on the other hand, where a lot of renovation work has already been done, the relative classification is disadvantageous. This is because it means that those states that have made an effort in the past will now have to do even more. After all, their most inefficient 15 percent are already - comparatively - doing well."
Result: cold expropriation

Not only does this mean that those who have already made special efforts will be penalized for doing so, but this plan will result in cold expropriation. Those who cannot afford such costly renovations will have to sell their homes, but will hardly get anything in return because of these regulations. The home of one's own as an old-age security and retirement home - the dream is shattered. Incidentally, this is also a bitter loss for the generation of heirs, and in a country where private wealth is already lower than in other EU countries. "Wealth shock: Germans are the poor sausages of the EU," was the title of one article that pointed out that citizens in most EU countries have more than twice as much wealth as in this country.

Germany does not need external enemies, we are doing away with ourselves. Putin and Xi just need a little patience with our politicians and the EU, and their calculations will work out. One can't help but wonder what business connections there are. Many people profit from and with the Greens, not only NGOs.

China should be pleased. Its plans to expand and become the dominant world power will be furthered by this. It is well known that the West is dependent on China for semiconductors. The West has transferred its know-how to China, has accepted the unspeakable conditions of China's CP for "the quick mark" and now stands there empty-handed. Stupidity that hurts.
No energy turnaround without rare earths

But it's not just semiconductors, the issue of "rare earths" is just as important.

"Without the 'rare earths' and strategic metals, there is unlikely to be any chance of the energy transition, the automotive transition to electric cars would also have to fail and the entire industry would not be able to manufacture its core products."

One could now enumerate where lithium, molybdenum, titanium, cobalt, tungsten, manganese, gallium, chromium, tantalum, germanium and indium are used, but one can also simply put it all in a nutshell: The "energy turnaround" depends crucially on "rare earths", without them no e-cars, wind power and solar plants and much more.

And who has "rare earths"?

"In the case of 'rare earths,' for example, the 'U.S. Geological Survey' in 2020 already indicated that China has a global share of 37 percent of the reserves, Vietnam is second at 18 percent, Brazil at the same 18 percent, Russia at 10 percent, India at 6 percent, Australia at 3 percent, Greenland and the U.S. at 1 percent, and the remaining countries at 6 percent."

So anyone who pushes the energy transition is driving us directly into the arms of China and ultimately Russia. This counteracts all necessary efforts at strategic independence from the states that are fighting a rights-based, free world order.

There is only one way: Either the free West fights for its way of life or there is the "energy transition". Both at the same time is not possible, the goals are mutually exclusive.
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It only makes no sense as long as one sticks to the idea that they want to defend liberty, competing market economy and burgoise humanistic society. The moment you realise that it is the intention to destroy these three things you see that the plan by which to achieve these objectives makes perfect sense.



Marx slobbers in his grave.