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Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by bjelkeman-again on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @04:46PM (#14455764)
Some countries are considering taxing your own production. In many countries the tax on fossile fuel is an important income for the state. The money needs to come from somewhere. (It seems very shortsighted to penalise expansion of solar power right now though.)

http://www.energinyheter.se/20161227/15749/regeringen-svange...

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Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by figers on Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:34AM (#14461144)
If I produce solar energy to be stored in a few Tesla power walls for my own usage I don't see how they'll be able to tax me. I own and control all the hardware and monitoring and could modify accordingly.
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Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by bjelkeman-again on Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:54AM (#14461359)
They estimate and tax.
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