Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

On the topic of water: sufficiently deep well with pump. Generator is also there. I also have water tablets to save energy for boiling.

And on the topic of freedom of alliance choices, I recommend Google with the terms China Salomons. Here you can clearly see some contradictory facts about alliance freedom. Black and white does not exist even with Russia's war of aggression. The topic of Nazis in Ukraine is also often kept silent. Likewise, the coup in Ukraine a few years ago. Just to clarify: I also strongly condemn the war of aggression and murder of Russia’s civilian population. I am for supporting Ukraine. But I also ask to inform yourself comprehensively. Unfortunately, the German mainstream media often do not provide entirely comprehensive information. And even with a lot of information, we can be sure to only grasp part of the implications of decisions. These often have further interrelations and unwanted synergistic effects that we simply cannot comprehend due to limited information.

§ 16 Criminal Code Dangerous crimes to the public.

Disruption of public services.

In particularly serious cases, the penalty is imprisonment from six months to ten years. 2. A particularly serious case is usually present if the offender impairs the supply of the population with vital goods, especially with water, light, heat, or power.

The offense is likely to apply when signing an oil embargo.

Otherwise, it is quite practical to shift everything onto Ukraine. Every delivery delay, every price increase, etc. is currently being blamed on the war, even if it has nothing to do with it. The state is filling its pockets very nicely. At an oil price of 100 dollars, diesel costs 2.10. There were times when at the same oil price we paid maybe 1.50. So something is definitely wrong here. It somehow seems like suddenly everything is coming from Ukraine.

§ 16 StgB Offenses Dangerous to the Public

Disturbance of public operations.

From which century is your StgB? Currently, § 16 is:

Which century is your StgB from?

He probably means 316b. A bit of loss is always there.

The criminal offense should apply when signing an oil embargo.

Layperson's opinion: An embargo does not constitute conduct under the elements of the offense in terms of actual impact on a physical substance. Otherwise, 316b would have applied much, much more often.
Anyone who claims otherwise is lying!

Every delivery delay, every price increase, etc. is currently being blamed on the war. even if it has not the slightest connection to it. The state is filling its pockets very nicely. At an oil price of 100 dollars, diesel costs 2.10. There were times when we paid maybe 1.50 at the same oil price.

You should really look at the historical EUR/USD exchange rates, otherwise you are comparing apples and oranges.

In March it was 116 euros per barrel of Brent, currently around 105 euros. In summer 2008 and summer 2012 about 85 euros per barrel each. Diesel back then was 1.55 euros per liter including VAT.

So currently about 20 euros per barrel more than back then or 13 cents more per liter of raw material for fuel. So already 170 cents per liter compared to the 2012 level. Added to this is the roughly 10 cents per liter CO2 tax introduced since then. So 180 cents per liter diesel would be okay. Plus the GHG quota, meaning either increased biofuel blending or buying the rights. That should be another 10 cents per liter or so. So a price of around 1.90 euros per liter diesel would be "reasonable".

Diesel is problematic as a fuel because it is also used for heating oil. And at the start of the war everyone stocked up and filled their tanks because many feared not being able to get any, which led to the situation that diesel, despite its lower tax, was sometimes significantly more expensive than E10. This is a special effect that did not exist in 2008 and 2012, on the contrary, back then people rather tried to wait out refilling. This effect is still there, although not as pronounced: current diesel price of about 2.02 euros per liter makes a surcharge of "only" 12 cents per liter.

At this time of year about 20 cents difference between diesel/E10 would actually be "normal" (in winter rather 10 cents due to heating oil demand), so diesel would be 20 cents (in winter 10 cents) cheaper than E10. Currently it is however 8 cents per liter that diesel costs more than E10. That means the fear effect plus windfall profits still make an astonishing 28 cents per liter. Thus I come to windfall profits, i.e. profits taken by fuel suppliers of 28-12 =16 cents per liter.

This may be bad but it is called a market economy.

PS: Elli would have explained it to you in detail back then, Durran..... (insider)
PPS: the increased VAT would still have to be deducted from the windfall profits and the fear surcharge. These are the only additional revenues for the state, but these will be offset by the saved fuel quantity due to the price. Probably a zero-sum game for the state!

Then I'll connect the topics again:

It's nice that you can cook, heat, and eat, but do you also have enough water?

- What are the current prices for cisterns?
- Are the well drillers still as overloaded as in the last 2 years?

We wanted to have a 10sqm cistern, but the construction road would have had to be expanded because otherwise the truck driver could not deliver the concrete cistern to the desired location. Cost including concrete cistern instead of €5,000 almost €10,000. So the topic was unfortunately off the table for us.

A well was not an option for us. Firstly, we are in a water protection area, and besides, groundwater is only found from 80m depth.