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About half of that price is taxes. One idea that is catching on is shifting taxes and green levies from electricity to gas as the grid gets cleaner. You can a
by ZeroGravitas 3y ago
About half of that price is taxes.
One idea that is catching on is shifting taxes and green levies from electricity to gas as the grid gets cleaner.
You can also sometimes make exceptions for specific use cases, e.g. stop charging the extra fees on electric trains or EV charging or any other use of electricity that is directly displacing fossil fuels.
- misja111 3y agoSure but that's just shifting the burden from one place to another. It doesn't take away the fact that cost of living in Germany has increased due to the shift to renewable energy. (disclaimer: I'm not against renewable energy, I just think we should not look away from reality)
- ZeroGravitas 3y ago"Shifting the burden" to the places with externalities is perhaps the key idea driving the renewable revolution and is a tool aimed at increasing theoretical efficiency, literally making us all wealthier.