Not only Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (The Greens) calls for energy saving.

Because the gas storage tanks have to be filled for the winter, and there is great uncertainty about future deliveries from Russia.

That's why Hesse's economics minister, Tarek Al-Wazir, is warning people to use electricity and gas sparingly.

The FAZ asked people from Frankfurt and the surrounding area how they deal with the topic.

“We will have to limit ourselves”

Petra Kirchhoff

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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A little water, a little electricity saving – “You can’t really do more than that,” says Sebastian Darr.

The forty-year-old, who works as a retail salesman for a florist, lives with his wife and children, five and six years old, in a two-family house in Schmitten.

It is heated with oil.

"The ancillary costs will increase and we will have to limit ourselves," says the sole breadwinner.

However, he is resolutely opposed to autumn.

"Then we go to the playground more often than to the cinema or to the forest instead of to the zoo." You have to talk about it in the family and still stay positive.

“You have to bring joy to the children.” Showering less often, switching off the television and stereo system completely instead of leaving them on stand-by mode – his family has always been sensitive to such issues.

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not simply pouring out used water, but collecting it and distributing it in the garden.

The children liked to play with water anyway.

The fact that the lawn in the garden is now dry doesn't bother him - "so what".

“I have always lived consciously”

"The situation is serious," says Beate Sander, "but I can't hear it anymore." The pensioner, who owns an apartment building in Frankfurt's Bornheim district, wished for "more serenity" on the subject and "less scaremongering".

The landlady, who had a new gas heating system installed three years ago and has been using less energy since then, has so far been spared the increased gas prices.

The agreed fixed price with the energy supplier runs until September.

She is prepared for the fact that prices will rise significantly.

Sander sees herself in the "privileged situation" of being able to pay higher prices, as she says.

That's why she rejects energy-relief packages, like the ones she recently used in the watering can principle.

As a private person, however, she only sees the possibility of "paying attention to small things", such as

wash your hands with cold water only or take shorter showers.

"For me, that has always been a matter of just two minutes." The tenants have always accepted that the heating is switched off between 11.45 p.m. and 5 a.m.

"In winter you have to see if you can turn the radiators down a notch." She thinks that's doable, says the Frankfurter, who has an RMV annual pass and prefers to take the bus and train to the car.

"I've always been conscious of the subject."

says the woman from Frankfurt, who has an RMV annual ticket and prefers to travel by bus and train than by car.

"I've always been conscious of the subject."

says the woman from Frankfurt, who has an RMV annual ticket and prefers to travel by bus and train than by car.

"I've always been conscious of the subject."