I sat at a picnic table this past weekend, with seven working-class Germans. Main focus/topic? Government mandates in motion for the heat-pump business.
Bluntly, all seven were negative about the way this is handled, very much anti-Green Party, and not in the belief that this will work in some coherent manner (if passed).
In one case, a couple is quickly moving to replace a 20-year old natural gas heating system....with a new natural gas system. After careful review of options and cost....the heat pump 'fad' wasn't economically viable.
This heat-pump deal making a negative point about the Green Party? Well.....yeah, that's a big focus of each person at the table.
Same trend nationally? I'd make an assumption that somewhere in the range of 60-to-70 percent of people aren't pumped up about the mandate and the way that it's being handled.
If I were buying a house today in Germany (already built)? I'd probably go natural gas, with some fireplace.
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