Exactly 40 years ago, the Neue Deutsche Welle singer Markus, hunting ducks in his Maserati, sang: "Don't want to save, don't want to be reasonable, just fill up with the good Super, I'm having fun, I'll step on the gas , I step on the gas.” Rarely does a song text seem so out of date.

Today, Google Maps is required to stop showing the quickest route;

no, the navigation should identify the most fuel-efficient route.

Because the trembling of winter, of gas allocation and gas rationing, has long since begun at 30 degrees in the shade.

So it's good that the stock market star of 2021 and 2022 is being honest.

RWE, with a share price gain of a whopping 35 percent for a year and 18 percent since the beginning of the year at the top of the Dax, wants to forgo accessing the gas surcharge.

This decision by the RWE Executive Board is by no means a matter of course.

Of course, the gas levy is only intended for the energy suppliers who have to procure natural gas from elsewhere instead of Russia, which puts them in an emergency.

But what is need?

We know from the Corona crisis how easy it is for healthy companies to be even healthier with short-time work benefits.

The RWE shareholders could also call out to the board of directors: “Give it gas!” because he doesn't want to access the allocation that RWE is formally entitled to.

Solar technology manufacturer increases

But the stock market is not just about short-term corporate success.

RWE rightly has its reputation in mind, especially since business is going well even without a gas surcharge.

Things should actually be even better in times like these for solar technology manufacturers.

However, like so many other companies, SMA Solar is currently struggling with delivery bottlenecks.

The solar technology manufacturer from Kassel is also benefiting less than its competitors from the fact that US President Joe Biden got his climate and social package through the Senate with alone 260 billion dollars in subsidies for solar, wind and hydropower - SMA is too low in the USA committed.

But his business figures were so well received that the SMA share stood out as the weekly winner in the Tec-Dax with around 13 percent.

Hapag-Lloyd also shows that the stock market does not reward short-term success.

The shipping company takes advantage of supply bottlenecks, raises prices and earns a lot.

But Hapag-Lloyd is currently not significantly increasing transport volume or investments in less CO2-intensive shipping, so investors used the good business figures this week to sell Hapag-Lloyd shares.

Stepping on the gas can mean all sorts of things.

Even if petrol has long (converted) cost three marks ten, the ups and downs on the stock exchange will continue.

However, the winners there will tend to be those who step on the gas differently than before.