The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance in the Saxon state parliament has accused the federal government of failing to prepare for the current price hike for fuel and natural gas. Both the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the global impact on energy supplies were known to be the result of an attack on Iran, explained party and parliamentary group leader Ronny Kupke in Dresden. However, German gas storage facilities are currently only around 20 percent full.
In Germany, this situation was caused by the federal government's "haphazard "principle of hope" for a mild winter and spring", said Kupke. The supply bottlenecks also had to do with the fact that "the Russian gas supply - cheap and reliable - was cut by the EU due to the war in Ukraine".
