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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1059558)	3/10/2018 4:08:54 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572605

I couldn't find an answer to what the German gov't uses the electricity taxes for. If they are like all other gov'ts, then they probably use it for general funds ...I doubt that very much since it more than DOUBLES the total cost.............it is done to dupe people into thinking costs of electricity via renewables is similar to that from coal/nuclear/gas.................what conventional capacity does Germany need because the sun doesn't often shine and the wind often doesn't blow.........do you claim this does not add cost?.............so how much does it add?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1059558)	3/11/2018 6:42:02 PM
From: Taro	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Mick Mørmøny Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572605

The private households in Germany pay between 3-5x more for electricity than the normal and power intensive industry clients. See the attached graphs and you can run the text through a translator, if interested. That means, that the automotive industry is heavily subsidized by the private house-holds thru the "Stromumlage", a set of taxes "needed to pay for the nuclear power exit" as they say. Peak power is mostly covered by power imports from 80% nuclear power France, by the way. So the heavy taxation of the consumer, who thus pays the highest power prices in Europe, is used to subsidize the heavy industry, among them steel producers (!) and car manufacturing. Trump of course knows this. Sorry, I had just a few minutes to summarize this.