They kinda do, but it's not as easy as we learned in Grade 8 because there is greedy investors, cartels and a worldwide market with all kinds of different players involved (including states that try to keep the price low for voters and others that try to get it even higher for their leaders' pockets.

And of course a 20% decrease in supply doesn't mean 20% increase in price, but the price will increase until there is 20% less demand, which doesn't happen because whole countries are dependent on gas as they did not invest in renewable energy.

Everyone using a heat pump also reduces gas demand which lowers the gas price.

So basically a heat pump is not only good for yourself but also for everyone else, even if you don't look at the climate.

That will of course switch when there is such a small number of households using gas that the grid will be a lot more expensive for those. But by the time we are at that point we can probably afford to gift them some heat pumps too.

Yeah but where do you want to get your electricity from? Wind&Solar is the only option without massive climate and environmental pollution, dependence on autocrat countries and international shipping, nuclear waste and danger of critical sabotage and possible terrorist attacks.

Getting used to wind turbines is kinda worth the upside of having clean, reliable, cheap and independent energy.

As someone who lived close to an active open lignite pit, I'm happy to live near wind turbines now.

They may or may not be ugly, you get used to them.

What I care for more is the fact that I don't have lung problems and cough half the year.

I'd like it better if the workers overthrew those managers and CEOs and took control of the production themselves. That would also lower the cost as those managers take hundreds of millions of Euros every year and give billions to investors who don't even produce anything at all.

But as long as the economy keeps growing it's good for us all because all the wealth trickles down, right?

Right?!

Without having read the article:

Rich old men, and build bunkers for climate collapse?

if someone is unhappy with the German rail network, they could just drive too.

That is exactly what every car salesman said to every transportation minister in Germany ever, and as the car companies are said to be a very important part of german industry, the politicians (mostly CDU/CSU) acted accordingly.

Everyone knows what it takes to make DB better. But if it was better, why would anyone buy a car anymore?