What does this mean for everyday life?

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Here is an example that the fact-checking portal mimikama published in mid-August.


Apparently, gas consumption in Germany is currently increasing because a lot of electricity is being exported to France, which is the real reason for the rising gas prices and it is therefore important that more nuclear power plants are built.


My personal context is of little help. I have around ten years of professional experience in the energy industry, but only with renewable energies. I know nothing about gas or nuclear energy. More nuclear power plants are not an option for me and unfortunately it will be decades before nuclear fusion can be used sensibly to generate energy. I also simply cannot imagine that Germany currently consumes more gas than is absolutely necessary. So much for my personal opinion.


Now to the sources of the claim:
1. A post on social media. The sender is called "Against Left-Red-Green". The agenda is immediately clear from the sender's name. The address is very striking and the choice of words is abysmal ("What stupid green babble."). Immediate disqualification.
2. Various media reports, including Markus Lanz on August 16, 2022, also mention that Germany is increasingly producing electricity from gas to supply it to France. There is no concrete agenda to be seen here, and the statement guatemala consumer email list​ was made via a medium established in Germany and prepared accordingly in a high quality manner.

So I'm still no wiser as to whether the claim is actually correct. Since I can't and don't want to check every dubious statement in detail for its truthfulness, I use the cause and solution of many problems as a tool - the Internet.


Many topics have already been checked by so-called fact checkers. In addition to mimikama, there are numerous other portals, associations and private individuals who have made it their task to check the veracity of dubious statements. To stay with the solution to the energy example: mimikama has painstakingly compared available data on electricity production, consumption and exports and condensed them into a result in individual steps. Ultimately, it was found in a comprehensible way that Germany actually exports more electricity to France, but not through gas combustion, which has actually decreased, but through electricity from renewable energies. The result was processed conclusively and in an interesting way. The claim was refuted.