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Does rising income increase household energy use, or change the equipment through which energy is consumed? In this exploratory conference contribution, Gerhard Tintner and Gabriele Wörgötter estimate demand for five fuels in Austria, finding sharply different relationships beneath the aggregate category of energy. Coal declines with income, while expanding ownership of electrical appliances and oil-fired central heating helps explain rising consumption elsewhere. Their petrol model makes the distinction especially concrete: income works chiefly through car ownership and engine capacity, with little additional effect once these are held constant. Readers can discover both the value and the limits of fuel-specific demand estimates: the authors connect coefficients to household circumstances while explicitly warning that statistical problems and changing supply conditions make their findings provisional.