TmMike_2
2022-06-20 00:03:42
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Then explain to me please what a Sunday driving ban is supposed to mean? I work all week and want to go to the mountains with my family on Sunday, which is why I live in Bavaria and pay incredibly high prices, and then I just have to sit at home? I bought a motorhome, so should I only drive it on Saturdays? And for what reason, please? Will it be taken into account that I drive the rest of the way with the electric car?
I’m not a fan of bans.
But whoever thinks the government is great has apparently not noticed how harmless demonstrations were banned in Munich and how censorship takes place on Twitter and also in newspapers. If you don’t notice all this, of course you can stand there and say everything is great here.
Bans and subsidies (through government regulation) have never worked in the long term.
The best example was the KfW subsidy for new construction – the idea wasn’t wrong, but the result was massive price increases.
When heating systems were subsidized by 35-50% and order books were full, that was simply added to the price.
Instead of making such professions attractive again and supporting companies and young craftsmen.
30% of heating technicians in Germany will have no one to take over the company in the next few years.
Now we all want the energy transition, but there is neither sufficient material nor skilled workers. It doesn’t matter whether heating, photovoltaics, insulation, etc.
In the past, grain was even airdropped in Africa to alleviate hunger.
Of course, that didn’t work well in the long run.
Now the avalanche of cost explosions is coming toward us, and in the long term, affordable, energy-efficient housing will be lacking.
Regarding costs: my numbers are recalculated as of April 2022 for our two-family house.
The increase in loan costs and building materials would have been +59% in just under 2 years; if I include the lost KfW subsidy, we're at 70%.
Even with a strict budget, that would have only worked with great difficulty.