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Environment & Energy

FBaggins

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2. Why Europe?

Reply to JDPriestly (Reply #1)

Mon May 7, 2012, 01:51 PM

May 2012

Energy policy throughout Europe is not homogeneous.

We subsidize so as to make fossil fuel energy seem artificially cheap.

That's a bit of an overstatement. Unless you count "we fail to charge them what I think the externalized costs should be", the subsidy per kWh is higher for non-fossil energy. And when you do try to charge them for a small part of their impact on the environment, some hear have called that a nuclear subsidy.

Regardless, this is just a specific surchage. The underlying rates are whatever they are.

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Another Considerable Rise of EEG Surcharge on the Horizon (Germany) [View all] FBaggins May 2012 OP

How much have other energy charges increased in the same time in Europe? JDPriestly May 2012 #1

Why Europe? FBaggins May 2012 #2

Two questions kristopher May 2012 #3

Two answers FBaggins May 2012 #4

That's extremely disingenuous Baggins. kristopher May 2012 #5

Not at all... you're trying hard to avoid the subject. FBaggins May 2012 #6

Yes, the FIT is one of the ways that payouts are made. kristopher May 2012 #7

Try reading threads you reply to. FBaggins May 2012 #8

But energy costs were high there when I lived in various countries some years ago, JDPriestly May 2012 #9