Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Tell me, what do you actually think will happen if the taxes on fossil fuels are eliminated? It’s not just about oil and gas, but also the massive taxation of fuel. You can’t seriously believe that electricity will remain cheap then? Electricity will be massively taxed in the future to compensate for lost revenues.

What would be your recommendation for the cost-conscious consumer now, in two, five, ten years?
If electricity becomes twice as expensive, gas has become four times as expensive, to put it bluntly.

Hydrogen? Yeah, yeah, the myth of the combustion engine fans (whether mobility or heating). Combustion engines are simply technologically disadvantageous, no matter how you look at it, the losses are too high.
A combustion engine in a passenger car is primarily a poorly controllable heater, but not a drive unit. Hydrogen doesn’t change that either.

By the way, the day-ahead electricity market prices in November 21 averaged 176 cents/kWh in Germany, 217 cents/kWh in France. So much for the myth of cheap nuclear power.
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By the way, the day-ahead electricity market prices in November 21 averaged 176 cents/kWh in Germany, 217 cents/kWh in France.

You really gave me a little scare there. But the unit is Euro/MWh, not cents/kWh. ;)

True indeed :-)

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About the combustion engine. I recently went by car from OH to WI, with furniture and a ladder, the train was impossible. 650 km. With an electric car, you can only do it with at least one recharge and a max of 100. The Ford Focus I borrowed for this does it at 140 and one tank, even when it's cold. Electric drive is not practical outside of short distances. Second car drive. But I don't want a 40 thousand euro second car. This green urban academic lifestyle is nothing for people from the countryside. Fossil energy and house prices. A price driver in the construction sector is the climate protection nonsense, air-water heat pump, photovoltaic system, storage, KfW 40 standard, etc. All of this is a factor in the de-housing of normal earners with 50 thousand gross per year.

You borrowed the car anyway. What difference would it have made if you only had electric cars at home? And there is a big difference between 650km and short distances. And for most of that, an electric car is sufficient. How often do most people have to drive long distances under time pressure?

Whereas the working conditions during production and the environmental compatibility of electric cars are another matter.

I also don't like the "faster higher further" approach to insulation standards. To me, that's activism like plastic straws. All small things, while the low-hanging fruits are ignored.

Air-to-air heat pumps are also affordable, photovoltaics at least pay off (just barely). With an electric car, even much faster ;)

... When the decision whether to have a second meter or not was pending, the energy world was still fine and there were several providers offering around 20 cents for heat pump electricity. Nobody could have guessed that it would change so quickly like that. Now we have the second meter and will see in a few years whether it really paid off.

The energy world has not been fine for decades (if you really look at it and haven’t just ignored it). Yeah, and who really could have guessed that energy prices would rise, no no, really nobody. It came as a total surprise. It’s not like energy prices in Germany are among the highest and have been rising for decades. CO2 tax, oops there was something. And that 10€ per ton of CO2 wouldn’t fit was somehow no surprise either. Well, the world was really still fine for many with nuclear, lignite, and hard coal :rolleyes:. Who even has children :eek: