Germany`s energy future enters campaign

Energy is the hot topic in German politics as oil and gas prices are shooting through the roof. Less than two weeks before the country heads to the polls to choose a new government, the oil shortage has fueled the campaigns.

..Several lawmakers and Schroeder have in recent days questioned the 40-year-old linkage of German oil and gas prices. Consumer Affairs Minister Renate Kuenast of the Green Party told the German daily Bild the ‘coupling of gas and oil prices must finally be abolished… Russian gas has nothing to do with Arabian oil.’

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