1. I was reading through a German beer article today, and they noted we are approaching the point where one out of every ten beers sold in Germany....is non-alcohol-type.
If you'd suggested this 40 years ago....no one would have believed the statement. Ballpark number of 5,000 types/brands sold....about 700 of them are non-alcohol.
2. Someone did a public polling situation in Thuringia, for the state election approaching. AfD is pulling 34 percent at present....leading.
3. Friday's For the Future activist group in Bremen.....disbanding? Well....yeah, it's a bit confusing.
The various other FFF groups continue on.
Why happened in Bremen? FFF-Bremen ended up picking another group of topics along the way....being into gender-politics, anti-colonial, anticapitalistic, and pro-LGTBQ.
As you can imagine....this led to various young plain white German 'lads' being discriminated against, and having bully-situations thrown at them. So the 'lads' kinda saw no need to participate.
Trying to be all things....packaged into one? Yeah....I'd say this became a serious problem.
Oddly enough, there seems to be some core group trying to rebuild FFF-Bremen, and filter out the non-environmental stuff. The fact that a fair number of young guys have a negative opinion of the group locally? I'd say in terms of recruitment....this is hard to re-brand the agenda and get these guys back into 'action'.
4. My local weather guy noted that on one particular day in June (2023).....it was the all-time record in a 24-hour period, with 748,300 lightning strikes. He also noted that the places least likely to have lightning in Germany....Kiel....while the worst spot to be for strikes....is the state of Bavaria.
5. If you drive around Germany, after a while....you will note car tags with 'H' on the end, and this means it's a historic car (over 30 years old) and they get special treatment with the 'H' tag.
I noted this week....via Focus....an odd development.
Around 1-percent of all cars in Germany are 'H' types....in case you were wondering.
There's a national rule about taxation....193-Euro per year, no matter how old or how big the engine is. Simple rule, if you think about it.
So the environmental folks (the Green Party)....want to dismantle the law on this. First, they say just because it's a car over 30 years old....does not make it a classic vehicle. They are careful not to say WHAT drives a vehicle to be classic....just that the 391,000 'H' cars aren't all classics.
I'm suspecting this will be impossible to write up a classic list and say X-cars fail to be classics out of the 1950s, but Y-cars from the 1930s are classics.
Second, they want the tax reverted to what normal vehicles pay, based on size of the engine. Well...a lot of these vehicles didn't have real horsepower, so when you do the numbers....the tax revenue people are missing around 170-million Euro from the revenue bucket.
All of this effort and chatter simply driving another wedge between the environmental crowd and the general public? Yeah, and you just wonder if attention is really worth making a big stink about.
Do the 'H' owners really drive their cars much? According to the Focus article....most average around 1,500 kilometers a year....meaning it's probably taken out of the garage maybe ten to fifteen times a year and 50-to-100 kilometers at a time. I would imagine most drive just in the spring or summer.
Where all of this is going? I would suspect that some idiot will attempt to make a list of super-historic cars, and suggest the rest are non-historic (even if they were manufactured in 1923).
This ending up as a public forum TV show talk? Yeah, some guy in the audience will ask how the Green Party determined the dividing line for super-historic and non-historic....with some answer that seems to be what a 8-year old kid would invent out of thin air.
The same logic should apply for books....there should be a dividing line for historic books and non-historic books. Intellectuals would just start laughing....if this was a debate topic.
6. Heat-pump law? Apparently....things occurred yesterday, and there's zero chance it'll pass before they go off to summer vacation. Apparently some Constitutional Court challenge came up.
Odds of passing after summer vacation? I'd say it's less than 50-percent.
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