Quote from: LeGaulois on August 21, 2022, 11:35:37 PM

Quote from: LoyceV on August 20, 2022, 08:26:26 AM

Of course, for consumers the difference is less, because energy was always highly taxed and there's now even a temporary tax reduction. But still, the everage new energy contract now costs €4000 per year more than a year ago. And this data is already old, because gas prices went up further.

I hope you don't forget that this situation is temporary. It' s currently the governments that compensate the difference by indemnifying the energy companies (as you surely know).

I meant the relative difference is less because of taxes: if you used to pay 75 cents per m³, and the gas price itself went up 20-fold, you'll now pay "only" 6 times more.

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It is obvious that these compensations will end sooner or later (in December in my country but it should be the same in the rest of Europe). What will happen then? Full price and right on time when the winter will begin. Jackpot! Don't be surprised if the price increases X3

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by the way, in my country, we pay a tax based on taxes (a tax of taxes). how crazy is it?

Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm pretty sure the Dutch government invented that Tongue

Quote from: xSkylarx on Today at 05:11:05 AM

I searched on google what is the source of Germany's electricity and found out that they mainly use coal similar to our country.

Natural gas is used for more than just electricity production, and they wanted to get rid of coal because of (not very realistic) climate goals.

Quote from: be.open on Today at 07:25:21 AM

Yep. But there is a caveat - hydrogen from Russia is much easier to replace with hydrogen from another source, because hydrogen is one of the most widespread chemical elements on Earth.

Natural gas isn't scarce. It's still very cheap in many countries. Transportation is what gets you, and hydrogen would be no difference even if it would be abundent somewhere.