What to do about the petrol price shock?

Yet another fuel price discount is senseless, Der Tagesspiegel fumes:

“This latest round is expected to cost 2.5 billion euros. Suddenly there’s money available. After a summer when the government cut advance maintenance payments for single parents, postponed a promised increase in student loans and scrapped funding for queer youth organisations because of a supposed lack of funding, this is nothing short of cynical. The state is doling out money hand over fist, and legitimising the oil companies’ outrageous price mark-ups. … People must realise: the fossil fuel era is ending, whatever the subsidies. The government must stop this, and now.”