With my satisfaction, the politicians were able to serve a billion increase in electricity support during a press conference at 08.30 today.
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My pleasure. And should have been completely unnecessary.
Norway is self-sufficient in green and cheap electricity. The development of this hydropower has been paid for by the Norwegian people.
It costs five to 10 øre to produce a kWh of electricity in Norway.
Nevertheless, we are now forced to pay both 50 and 80 times the production cost, at worst.
People sell dogs and drop Christmas presents. Pandemic-affected companies get another blow to the face.
Is it because of the weather? Little water in the reservoirs? The EU’s green shift?
The answer is: No, no and no.
We produce more power than we use. So there is more than enough of the cheap power for all households and all businesses in Norway.
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Nevertheless, we pocket billions in overprices for the power companies. As if there was an acute power shortage here. It is not.
None of the politicians during the press conference this morning dared to point to the electric elephant in the room. Its blue belly is adorned with twelve golden stars that form a circle.
The Labor Party’s naive enthusiasm for the EU. The superstition of the political elite in the “market”. There you have the underlying causes of the price shock on Norwegian electricity.
The Norwegian joint solutions were no longer good enough, so we had to have “competition” in all areas. Norwegian independence was not worth much, so we had to join the EU.
This ideology has characterized the Labor elite for 30 years, under leaders such as Gro Harlem Brundtland, Jens Stoltenberg and Jonas Gahr Støre. All from the best Oslo west. All with limited ground contact.
Hydropower is Norway’s most important economic advantage. It was not our practical location below the North Pole that made it possible to industrialize Norway with strong export companies in the process industry. It was the control of hydropower.
It is not the “market” that makes it economically viable to heat homes in an icy country. It is the control of hydropower.
Now we’re losing that control.
An alliance of EU-happy top politicians and bonus-happy power directors are doing everything they can to “integrate” our most important advantage into the European market. As the EU wants.
We will sacrifice our most important economic advantage on the altar of desk theories about the “market” and an EU to which the majority of the Norwegian people have said “otherwise thank you”. In referendum. Twice.
But Oslo West, Brundtland, Stoltenberg and Støre voted intensely “yes” to the EU.
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With one power cable after another, our EU-happy elites have succeeded, bit by bit, in fulfilling their dream. All warnings that we are losing control have been dismissed as fabrications.
The price should only increase a few øre, max.
Now the dream has come true. For most electricity customers, it is a nightmare. For the power processing industry, with hundreds of billions in annual exports, this could end up with the hook on the door.
Our most important industry, oil and gas, is gradually becoming obsolete. In this situation, it would be economic madness to undermine the most important advantage for Norwegian industry after oil, which is access to cheap, green and perpetual power.
This madness is already a fact. For over 100 years, we have known that hydropower is not a common commodity. It is a prerequisite for modern Norwegian civilization. In the same way as the road network and the school system.
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Most people know this. But not Jonas Gahr Støre.
Most recently in the Storting’s question time last Wednesday, he insisted that it will “serve Norway” to integrate our hydropower as much as possible in a European market with a much higher price level.
Together with the right wing, Støre’s generation in the Labor Party elite has systematically undermined Norway’s most important long-term advantages. How long will ordinary people take the bill for the elites’ superstition of the EU?
The package with power support is like a small patch on a large wound that will continue to bleed.
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