The federal government is considering additional oil and gas production in the North Sea and a speed limit.

After Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) questioned the waiver of additional drilling in the North Sea anchored in the coalition agreement in the Tagesspiegel on Sunday, the economic department brought a speed limit into play.

"You have to check everything now, including a speed limit and additional funding in the North Sea," said Parliamentary State Secretary Oliver Krischer (Greens).

"In the current situation, everyone must be ready to jump over their own shadow to improve security of supply."

However, the additional quantities of oil and gas until next winter are manageable.

"We are also examining such measures that can be used to achieve short-term reductions in consumption, above all a speed limit."

The Greens have long been calling for a general speed limit on motorways.

In the coalition agreement, however, this was ruled out primarily at the insistence of the FDP.

Conversely, the Greens had rejected drilling in the North Sea for environmental reasons.

Lindner therefore said: "We must question the coalition agreement's decision that we do not want to continue mining oil and gas in the North Sea."

"In view of the changed geopolitical background, I think it is advisable to examine our country's entire energy strategy without prohibitions on thinking," said the FDP leader.

Habeck: We are reducing dependencies on Russia

The “Zukunft Gas” association had also brought additional funding into play in Germany.

There is a potential of 20 percent here.

However, German funding is currently only five percent of consumption.

More than half of the demand is imported from Russia.

In the case of oil, it is almost half.

Economics Minister Robert Habeck said in an interview with the FAS that Germany is continuing to say goodbye to Russian imports “every day, practically every hour”.

“If we succeed, we will be independent of Russian coal by autumn and almost independent of oil from Russia by the end of the year.

With gas, it's more complicated because we don't have our own LNG import capacities.

We can now do it under high pressure, ”said Habeck in the interview.