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Minimum wage where I live is 830€/month. Fuel is taxed at about 60% (mostly with environmental excuses from the state). Electricity is at an all-time high beca
by wtcactus 3y ago
Minimum wage where I live is 830€/month. Fuel is taxed at about 60% (mostly with environmental excuses from the state).
Electricity is at an all-time high because we spend a huge amount of money making it "green". People can't even heat their houses in the winter. It's literally 13C inside right now at my parents house.
Meanwhile, France is deemed "un-green" because union-level climate policies mark cheap nuclear power as not "green", while Germany is burning biomass and expensive natural gas, therefore is tagged "green".
Union-level climate policies completely at fault here, and so are many government policies that are just an excuse to extract more taxes under the righteousness of "fighting climate change".
I don't know who is getting rich and achieving a better life out of this, but it's certainly not the European common citizen.
- euroderf 3y agoNot to quibble, but... - Fuel taxes are national policy, not EU ? - Electricity was stupid high mainly because of the war ? (and FWIW "green" is not yet king - given that there is still new coal capacity coming online [thanks, Poland] in spite of its utter stupidity) - Agreed that natural gas policy is kind of all over the place - policy is lagging reality The EU is not rich in own energy resources, so placing taxes & other restrictions imports keeps cash at home to plow into renewables - improving security of supply. So I'm still not convinced that the EU has got it willfully wrong.