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Germany has very high taxes on electricity: https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/berlin-considers-slashing-electricity-tax-by-95-to-boost-h
by throwaway473825 3y ago
Germany has very high taxes on electricity:
https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/berlin-considers-slashing-electricity-tax-by-95-to-boost-heat-pump-uptake/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/ber...
It also doesn't help that Germany still uses a lot of gas and coal, the two most expensive common sources of electricity.
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoDoes not matter what makes energy expensive. Germans are losing competitiveness of their own industry... because German energy is expensive. If those are just taxes, it should be easy to just slash them? But they are not doing that. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-economy-minister-wants-lower-industry-electricity-costs-billions-subsidies https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-economy-minister...