When the first reports appeared that the production of urea had to be restricted due to the rise in energy prices, some people immediately cheered.

Urea, that's Adblue, that's what diesel engines need to run, so we're finally going to get rid of it this way.

The anti-diesel campaign was already exaggerated in itself and technically nonsense, but now it shows how misleading black and white thinking can be.

Not to say: in a dead end.

Because if BASF lacks ammonia due to the development on the gas market, if it does not produce urea or in smaller quantities, and the fuel additive that is unavoidable for nitrogen oxide reduction is becoming more and more expensive, then not only Lieschen Müller's TDI stays in the garage.

Then no more parcels from DHL arrive at home, the shelves in Edeka remain empty, the newspaper no longer finds its way to the subscribers, and the bus service also falls flat.

Because, of course, trucks, tractors and buses also need Adblue, and in large quantities, almost all of them run on diesel.

I don't care, I don't need traffic?

Urea (urea) is used as an auxiliary substance in the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients, the pharmaceutical company Sanofi replies somewhat awkwardly to an inquiry from the FAZ.

In short: Urea is needed to produce insulin.

So this is about human lives, and not as a side note, Sanofi has, if you may say so, a systemically important market share.

In the region around the plant in Frankfurt-Höchst, there are rumors that Sanofi has rented an area from the logistics service provider DHL and is storing large quantities of urea there out of concern that production could fail.

That would be good commercial prudence, just as it is certainly practiced by other prudent entrepreneurs.

An inquiry in the press office of Sanofi unmasks it as a press prevention office, more than a meaningless answer is not available.

“We are constantly adapting supply chains, including sourcing, for all our products and processes, and we strive to secure the supply of our medicines worldwide.

Please understand that we will not comment on further details," said Sanofi.

Quite obviously there is nervousness to the point of speechlessness, but there are clearly concatenations that nobody thinks of at first glance.

So it's worth the second one.

Our society, our economy, our technology is more deeply networked than some hasty judgments would lead us to believe.