The government or rather, the taxpayers, will still be forced to subsidize 30 to 70% of the cost of a new heat pump, but won't actually fine anyone or put them in jail if they buy an oil or gas heater. (Yay, "freedom".)

Green groups responded with all the wisdom we've come to expect:

This reform is a disaster': Climate groups slam Germany for scrapping renewable heating law
EuroNews

One critic has called the move "an unconditional fulfilment of all the wishes of the fossil fuel lobby".

"This reform is a disaster," Green Party parliamentary group co-leader Katharina Dröge told the German Press Agency (dpa).

"The CDU and SPD [Social Democratic Party] have today made it abundantly clear: climate protection is completely irrelevant to this coalition," she added. "The federal government has abandoned the achievement of the climate targets."

Germany  still relies on oil and gas for 80% of its heating needs. The mandate to force people to switch to at least 65% renewables for heating came into place in 2023.

People disliked heat pumps so much they just stopped building new homes.

Germany accused of ditching climate targets as it scraps renewables mandate
By Deborah Cole, The Guardian

She said: "The dilemma was that Robert Habeck's heating law had unsettled homeowners. Sales of modern heating systems, heat pumps and modern gas boilers plummeted. People stopped building altogether."

The dispute poisoned relations in the coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and pro-business Free Democrats and is often called the beginning of the premature implosion of that government.

The left always go too far.

Germans are still free to buy heat pumps, or use biomass or biofuel if they want to. The "disaster" here is that Germans have some freedom to choose. And if the renewable heaters were cheap to run, no one would need a mandate to force compliance.

The Green Left Agenda is falling apart.