While the German government prevaricates around its self-imposed energy crisis, citizens are taking matters into their own hands to keep themselves warm this coming winter with sales of cheap, reliable wood burners soaring in Europe.
After years of being warned from abroad — not least by U.S. President Donald Trump — against relying on a belligerent Russia for a great proportion of their domestic energy, the hammer has dropped for Germany with Russia turning off the taps of natural gas supply.
Seeing their Red-led ‘traffic light’ coalition government paralysed by divisions in the environmentalist Greens and the pro-business Yellows, many Germans are taking matters into their own hands by falling back on traditional, decentralised heat sources.
But, reduced to the status of a niche source of energy for predominantly rural communities, supplies of new furnaces and wood to power them has failed to keep up with demand.
Indeed, demand for wood-burning stoves “exploded” in Germany after Russia invaded Ukraine, a spokesman for a German association of heating installers said. In further comments reported by the Frankfurter Allgemeine, there has been a comparable surge in purchases of firewood in the same period, so says the head of the Federal Firewood Association.
The rush on wood-burning appliances is so pronounced the waiting time for some is a year, with no hope of delivery for this winter. While wood burners are made in Germany, there are shortages of individual components and materials, including parts that come from Communist China.
This shortage of stoves is extending across the whole of Europe, the spokesman said.
There has been so much demand for firewood in the past months that it is effectively sold out in Germany. As the FA article notes, there is no shortage of actual trees in Germany but air-drying cut wood so it is suitable for home burning takes two years naturally. The process can be sped up with forced air, but this uses increasingly expensive electricity to power fans, pushing up the price — and there aren’t enough businesses doing this to keep up with demand anyway.
Firewood Association spokesman Gerd Müller said of the shortage: “It’s almost impossible to get dry firewood this year”. Bulk pelletised burning wood used in automated burners has doubled in price in a year, the report states.
Jaxon Price
and the best example for this, the british island
lel
Jaxson Williams
Yeah, that's the 'able' part.
Andrew Hall
>Federal Firewood Association. u wot m8
Jeremiah Thompson
I like how they still blame Russia when its western sanction that prevent the turbine needed for the pipeline. They continue like that and Putin will really not turn on the pipeline again because why the hell not they already painted him as Hitler the storm is coming already why not let the Germany public riot a bit?
Ian Davis
My only wish is that every smug kraut (all of them that aren't turdish) get brutally raped, then murdered.
Jace Parker
You kraut apes don't riot, you give your daughters to penniless Afghans and offer them BMW cars to plough your whore daughters as tribute xD
Justin Gonzalez
shit is almost sold out in swe germans buying them in bulk fuck germany fucking niggers
Julian Bennett
burning wood is not greener, it produces more co2 and methane than coal or natural gas and requires far more land to produces less energy you'd be better off being a solarcuck
Austin Clark
>burning wood is not greener >you'd be better off being a solarcuck kys, retarded faggot
