Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

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, bluntly put.

Hydrogen? Yeah, yeah, the fairy tale 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 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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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 building block for the dispossession of average earners with 50K gross p.a.

About the combustion engine. Recently drove from OH to WI with the car, carrying furniture and a ladder; the train was impossible. 650 km. You can only do that with an electric car by charging at least once and driving at max 100 km/h. The Ford Focus I rented for this did it at 140 km/h on a full tank, even though it was cold. Electric drive is not practical outside short distances. Second car drive. But I don’t want a 40,000 euro second car. This green urban academic lifestyle is nothing for people from the countryside.

Take a step back, you don't have to completely freak out right away.
I also never said that I am a fan of nuclear power, nor that I prefer hydrogen. Here you are really overreacting. Shocking.

But to your question: Indeed, I am an absolute fan of heat pumps in new buildings. There are very good options here, even beyond the air-to-water heat pump, to realize this cheaply yourself with a bit of electricity.

I am a pronounced opponent of putting the many many owners and tenants of old buildings under massive cost pressure. The CO2 price in its current form only leads to people with low incomes having even less available. It pushes older people out of their hard-earned property and is socially massively unjust. If it were to be socially just, ALL goods would have a calculated CO2 price.

The e-car story is also extremely oversimplified. Different concepts have to work side by side here. Because unfortunately, the raw materials for the necessary batteries don’t grow on trees either. And additionally consume an extreme amount of drinking water in water-poor regions.
By the way, I suggest making cities free of individual traffic. In connection with state-subsidized public transport. The P&R parking lots arranged radially around cities.
Expansion of home office and digitalization also saves the daily commute to the office.

The promotion of electric cars is nothing other than a subsidy of the car industry. What, please, is more sustainable than driving a vehicle that has already been produced? Constantly buying new vehicles is neither environmentally friendly nor sustainable.
Until the concept of new cities is implemented, e-fuels will certainly be producible at low cost. This protects lower incomes and is environmentally friendly then.

So @guckug2, I am happy to continue discussing with arguments on a factual level. I am reluctant to communicate with people who polemicize and launch a broad attack without knowing another person’s point of view. The world is complex. There is no alternative without alternatives.

If you're renting a car anyway, you can always rent a combustion engine car in the future. Such trips, for which an electric car is really not suitable at the moment, are very rare. For the daily commute to work, however, the electric car is more than sufficient. And that already costs not 40,000 but 20,000€. Or do you commute more than 70km one way? From there, the range slowly becomes tight in winter. I estimate that about 90% of the rural population could cover basically all routes electrically without noticing any difference.

The promotion of electric cars is nothing more than a subsidy for the automotive industry. What, please, is more sustainable than driving a vehicle that has already been produced? Constantly buying new vehicles is neither environmentally friendly nor sustainable.
Until the concept of new cities is implemented, e-fuels will certainly be producible at low cost. This protects lower incomes and is then environmentally compatible.