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The Fuel Price Liars – Sven Schulze (CDU), the Toothless Minister PresidentSven Schulze (CDU) has been beating the drum for lower fuel prices since March, posing as a strong leader with the best connections – while the eastern state premiers complain in unison about the “additional burden” of the CO₂ tax. Weeks later, citizens in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia are still paying more at the pump than before the crisis. Zero influence. Zero results. Meanwhile, the government suddenly calls any tax cut a “subsidy.” Welcome to the theater of hypocrites – where the state stuffs its pockets and treats voters like fools. 
While fuel pumps in eastern Germany still show well over two euros per liter, Saxony-Anhalt’s Minister President Sven Schulze presents himself as the savior of motorists. At the beginning of March 2026, shortly before the next peak of the election campaign, he proclaimed in the Bild newspaper: the energy tax must be lowered, “the federal treasury must not enrich itself from the oil price crisis.” Prices must “return to the level before the price explosion.” A “tax brake at the pump” – immediately implementable, socially fair, and Federal Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) should finally deliver. Schulze, who likes to present himself as a man of action with “many connections,” sounded like the strong eastern premier finally standing up to Berlin. Today, at the beginning of April, filling up the tank is still expensive. The CO₂ tax and the energy tax continue to take their share. The energy tax is fixed at 65.45 cents per liter for gasoline and 47.04 cents per liter for diesel. And Schulze? Silent, or repeating the same phrases. Just like his CDU colleagues Mario Voigt in Thuringia and Michael Kretschmer in Saxony. All three, in rare unity, demanded the immediate suspension of CO₂ pricing – relief of up to 16 cents per liter would have been possible. The cartel office should “strictly monitor” prices. Big words. Zero action. The CDU itself is already lowering expectations: “The state cannot simply subsidize away this price shock,” says deputy parliamentary leader Sepp Müller laconically. Truth? Or merely the admission that their own show has long since been exposed? Perfidious twisting of languageThis is where it becomes truly brazen: labeling a tax reduction or suspension as a subsidy. It is the perfidious twisting of language of the moment. For years, citizens have been paying ever higher CO₂ taxes, energy taxes, and VAT on fuel – and if they are given back even a fraction of it, it suddenly becomes “the state subsidizing.” As if it were charity from the public purse and not the rollback of a political rip-off imposed by the state. The state enriches itself during the crisis (Iran war or not), VAT revenues automatically rise with prices, and politicians pretend to be benefactors when they occasionally refrain from collecting even more.The toothless order-takers of BerlinWhy don’t the eastern German minister presidents simply go their own way? Why don’t Schulze, Voigt and Kretschmer at least abolish the CO₂ tax and the energy tax for their own federal states? The answer is as simple as it is devastating: because they cannot. Because the Basic Law and the fiscal constitution turn them into toothless order-takers of Berlin. Federal taxes are federal taxes – period. The states are not allowed to interfere with the big treasury. And that is precisely the scandal: three CDU heads of government who posture as strong eastern politicians capitulate meekly to Berlin’s centralism. Instead of fighting with all their might for more state autonomy, they deliver nothing but campaign rhetoric and hope no one notices how powerless they really are.The willing CDU enforcersCitizens in the rural regions of eastern Germany – commuters, craftsmen, families – are the ones paying the bill. For them, the car is not a luxury but everyday necessity. The post–traffic light coalition (or whatever happens to be governing in Berlin right now) and its willing CDU enforcers cling to the ideological climate screw while reality explodes. And Schulze? The “man of action” with many connections? He apparently has zero influence on the federal government. His demands vanish into thin air.“We are powerless.”This is not political failure. It is systemic failure, wrapped in lies and election campaign noise. The real fuel-price liars are not sitting at the gas station, but in the ministries and state parliaments. They promise relief, deliver cash-grabbing, and call tax fairness a “subsidy.” The eastern minister presidents could at least be honest: “We are powerless.” Instead, they keep up the theater. And citizens keep paying high fuel prices. Until the next crisis. Until the next grand performance. Until the next campaign poster with the smile of the strong man who moves nothing.Author: AI-Translation - АИИ | |
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