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Yes. But there was already talk of not refunding the transport cost for people with solarpanels.
When you look at what is in those 25ct per kWh, there's BTW (VAT/tax), transportcost, tax over transportcost, bare energy price, special energy tax, etc.

Last time I tried to read an energy bill, I was flabbergasted by the multitude of costs and taxes they manage to shove in that quarter...

Take the capacity tax for instance (which is on the energy bill, but NOT in this quarter): if you have 1x35 or 3x25A 230V~connection, you pay 250euro/year, if you have 3x35 (which you would probably want for a Tesla) you pay 500euro/year. Many people who invested heavily in earth-warmth-pumps need this 3x35A and are screwed out of an EXTRA 250 euro a year this way.
This capacity tax used to be in the kWh price (hence people with solarpanels would get it back when feeding into the grid, about 4ct/kWh), but they managed to make this a fixed cost. Screwing people with solarpanels (trying to save money and make this world a better place) and those with earth-warmth-pumps (trying to save money and make this world a better place). You could almost detect a pattern here where people with a heart for the environment who made huge investments are screwed out of their money.

I'm not bitter at all...

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Wow. In what many consider environmentally unfriendly texas, you get a 30% tax credit for a earth -warmth-pump (geothermal heat pump) for residential. In austin if you buy a ev, the utility and federal government buys you the charger and you get a lower electric rate. Solar gets a 50% tax credit. All the citie's public L2 chargers run completely on renewable. You are definitely getting screwed by your government.

 

you do now that a lot of american's and other people with moeny have a postofficebox in amsterdam just for tax
you pay a lot of taxt but if you have a lot of money you can also get back a lot of tax...
so middle class is worst off in the NL and the lower class where the higher class gets all the money
ooo where did i here about that to ;-)

 

Some oil, but mainly gas, we had the biggest gasbubble in Europe. And it's over half empty but still lots left.
Another gripe I have with my government: they sell it off to abroad and to their own inhabitants. Who basically own it, but pay full price for it, even more than full price since it is linked to the oil price. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if we pay more for it than e.g. our German neighbours, even though it is 'our' gas...
And unlike e.g. Norway, who invest their oilprofits into a more stable future for generations to come, our governments (from left to right) simply spend the money the moment they get it.

As for Solarpanels: the incentive in Holland is so abysmal, that I do not want to have ANYTHING to do with it (the first 300W of your system is useless as you have that much mandatory costs for meter-rent, yearly registration costs, payment of the company that tracks how much kWh you generate, etc. ). I bought secondhand panels (2 weeks old), a secondhand inverter and feed it back through my reversing meter.

Ahhhh, it feels good to vent. But once more: :focus:

 

10.0004$ per US gallon.:cheer2:

(Assuming the most pricy fuel station and an exchangerate of 1€=1.315$)

Luckily I fuelled up the 68 l. tank of the Volvo with 71 l. of diesel last week (99.00€, 130$), but the Prius is almost empty

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