Fuel prices in Germany have fallen significantly.
With an average of 1.79 euros for Super E10 and 1.91 euros per liter for diesel, drivers can refuel more cheaply than they have for a long time.
This will please many who drive to work and have suffered from the high prices.
From the point of view of climate protection, however, lower fuel prices are of course counterproductive.
That always has to be weighed up.
After all, the price level that has now been reached is still well above what politicians in Germany had originally aimed for when introducing a CO2 price for transport as a sensible continuous price increase in order to promote the switch to electromobility without people who would like to use it Car are instructed to strain too much.
But of course one can criticize that all these efforts have so far been too timid, after all, the desired goals for climate protection, especially in transport, have not been achieved.
And of course there would have been ways to cushion the social consequences of the transformation in other ways.
Nevertheless, it is probably advantageous for the acceptance of climate protection in transport if the alternatives to private transport become better and cheaper, if there are new intelligent transport solutions and electric cars become more powerful and cheaper - and it is not just the highest possible price of petrol that politicians are looking for to the necessary reduction in automotive pollutant emissions.