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With winter approaching, the energy crisis is blooming all over Europe.
In order to show that they can overcome the cold, European politicians have come up with a variety of “fantastic ideas”, from washing only four parts in a bath to climbing stairs to keep warm.
Taking a bath once in one’s life is nothing special. Bild, a German newspaper, said in July that “not taking a bath can improve people’s skin conditions better”.
However, as the temperature continues to drop, a much more serious problem than bathing comes. What should we do about heating?
The “Beixi 1” natural gas pipeline has been closed indefinitely. When Russia resumes gas supply, the key lies in Germany.
However, German Foreign Minister Burke suddenly ran to Kiev by night train the day before yesterday to encourage Ukraine to continue fighting.
Germans may think they can cope with it. It is said that Germany’s natural gas storage facilities have an adequacy rate of about 84%. If industrial gas is not considered, Germans can survive the winter by saving a little.
How do German enterprises and small businesses spend winter? Last week, three large manufacturers (toilet paper, shoes and auto parts) filed for bankruptcy, and other manufacturers are also preparing to file for bankruptcy.
The way the German government responds to corporate bankruptcy is that the Ministry of justice raises the threshold for bankruptcy applications. In this way, the number of bankrupt enterprises will not be so many.
Now the German people are rushing to install solar energy equipment, and most of these solar energy products come from China.
But what about countries that do not have natural gas storage facilities?
Switzerland, the “little beautiful and rich”, is one of them. Although it usually looks like a “happy life”, it is almost helpless in the face of the cold.
It would simply be cruel — it would directly incriminate heating.
On September 6, Switzerland’s Blick reported that Marcus swandelli, spokesman of the Swiss Ministry of economic affairs, said that in the face of natural gas shortage in winter, the Swiss government would prohibit people from adjusting the temperature of buildings heated by natural gas to more than 19 degrees Celsius, heating the heating water supply to more than 60 degrees Celsius, or using heating tools such as electric heaters. Violators would face legal sanctions.
This provision has been written into federal law. If anyone intentionally violates the regulations, the maximum penalty is 3 years’ imprisonment and a fine; If it is negligent, it will also be fined up to 180 Swiss francs.
But there are many questions about how this law should be implemented. Do Swiss police have to go to the door to test the temperature?
Freddie Fassler, the chief police chief of Switzerland, said he did not want the police to go door-to-door and “we hope to implement this rule with a sense of propriety.”
“Be measured” is a vague concept, and whether the police break the law depends on their mood.
Guy pamlan, vice president of the Swiss Confederation and Minister of economy, said at the press conference of the Federal Council that “we are not a police country”. Funny, what is the country where people have to be convicted for heating?
Eating, drinking water and heating are the most basic needs of human life and the most basic guarantee of human rights.
Switzerland is a “small lighthouse of human rights”, and it has not seldom accused China of “human rights”.
However, after Switzerland was shaped by the “cold war”, it shows that it does not care about human rights at all.
It is the responsibility of the Swiss government to solve the heating problem, but it has never prepared for this work before. When winter comes, it directly shifts the crisis onto the people – “heating is guilty”.
Why is the Swiss government so impatient?
Switzerland’s power supply and natural gas (heating) guarantee are very different in summer and winter. Switzerland is known as the “European water tower”. It is extremely rich in water resources. There are hundreds of hydropower stations in the territory, and the electricity can be self-sufficient in summer.
But in winter, the river enters the dry season, and some places will freeze, so it needs to purchase power from France, Germany and Italy.
In terms of heating, Switzerland does not produce natural gas, nor has it established channels and storage facilities for importing liquefied natural gas. It relies on the pipelines of Germany and Italy to import natural gas, and uses as much as it needs.
As a landlocked country, as long as Germany’s natural gas is in a normal state, Switzerland believes that it will not have problems, and the government does not make emergency plans.
Switzerland does not lack money. Even if the government has a little awareness of the energy crisis, it should have done some storage work in natural gas long ago.
There is a Chinese idiom called “prepare for a rainy day”, which means that people should have a sense of hardship. At the national level, this is called strategic deployment.
But for Swiss politicians, their eyes are on the present.
It is also because of its wealth that Switzerland pays special attention to green energy. It even restricts wind power generation, fearing that it will damage its tourism resources.
There are about five nuclear power generation facilities in Switzerland, but because of the “anti nuclear” concept, nuclear power has been stopped.
Since the end of last year, the “Ukraine problem” has been heating up until the outbreak of the Russian Ukrainian military conflict on February 24, which plunged Europe into a comprehensive energy crisis.
This crisis has posed an extremely serious threat to Switzerland. Its original policy of relying on its neighbors has been directly reproduced.
When the European Union tightened its natural gas export policy, Switzerland panicked. In April, there was a phenomenon of stealing oil in society (stealing oil from farmers’ transportation vehicles by driving small cars).
The Swiss government asked Germany to be lenient and maintain normal energy supply, but Switzerland is not a member of the European Union.
Germany refused to provide natural gas to Switzerland and Italy refused to do so, citing the EU’s restriction on energy exports to non member countries.
In 2020, the Germans snatched the masks purchased in Switzerland. Now the Germans are almost going to the mountains to cut firewood. How can they transport the only natural gas to Switzerland.
Moreover, if Germany supplies gas to non EU countries, how will it explain to the EU’s younger brothers?
In the final analysis, it is still Switzerland’s own problem. Short sighted politicians are used to enjoying happiness and lack a serious sense of hardship.
“Prepare for the rainy day” not only means that Switzerland should be willing to spend money to build some gas storage facilities, but also that Switzerland should have political vision — what role should it play in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine?
Originally, Switzerland could use its status as an “international conference room” to persuade Russia and Ukraine. Germany’s natural gas source is Russia. To help Germany ease the situation is to help Switzerland itself.
However, instead of cooling down, Switzerland has added fuel to the fire.
In March, Switzerland announced that it would follow up EU sanctions against Russia and freeze Russian assets.
What is the principle of confidentiality, what is the principle of neutrality, what is the principle of sanctity and inviolability of private property? Throw them all away and try to please the United States.
In April, Switzerland felt that it was wrong because Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other large depositors were worried about safety. On April 4, Swiss Foreign Minister cassis changed his words and announced that he would not participate in sanctions against Russia.
Next, Switzerland changed its tactics to fully support Ukraine. At the “rebuilding Ukraine” conference held in Lugano on July 6, Switzerland promised to be responsible for the construction of Odessa state.
On July 26, Switzerland staged another ugly farce — refusing to grant visas to the Russian delegation participating in the “United Nations Conference on information and communication security” held in Geneva.
Russia is very angry and claims that it will not arrange important bilateral negotiations in Geneva in the future.
On July 30, Marie Fleisch, director of the Swiss Economic Affairs Secretariat, also made irresponsible remarks on China’s Taiwan Strait issue in an interview with new Zurich.
This is the true face of the “permanent neutral country”, which has blinded many people’s good feelings towards it.
Because it is so crazy externally, it is also so vicious internally.
In which country in the world will people be convicted of heating? The responsibility does not lie with the Swiss people, nor does the energy crisis break out today. What has the government done long ago?
We used to think of the west too well, especially countries like Switzerland, which have shown their original shape one by one this winter.
What’s more, the Swiss government’s directive has another provision – “we encourage neighbors to support correct behavior and report any behavior that circumvents these rules.”
Last week, an advertisement encouraging reporting was posted on the streets in Switzerland. The content is roughly as follows: if you find that your neighbor’s indoor temperature is higher than 19 ?, please call the reporting phone, and you will get a reward of 200 Swiss francs (about 1450 yuan).
So, how do Swiss people deal with their neighbors in winter? When a person comes to your home as a guest, you don’t know whether he comes to chat or earn 200 yuan as a reward for reporting. Therefore, when someone knocks at the door, be sure to open the window to let the cold wind in to lower the room temperature.
Allowing neighbours to report to each other can indeed reduce the police’s work pressure, but this practice will only make people in society feel insecure.
While talking about human rights every day, he criminalized “excessive heating”. Isn’t Switzerland “both acting and standing”?
Switzerland is only a microcosm of Europe. As winter approaches, European countries are brewing large-scale “energy protests”. However, contrary to the previous slogan of “energy protest”, it is now “opening up thermal power generation”, “restarting nuclear power”, “starting Beixi 2”
Europe is facing a real “cold war” — fighting the cold with flesh.
Dogs know how to keep warm, but EU leaders say, “this is the price of freedom”!
Understand, respect, cheer, bless