Monrox
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- Apr 9, 2010
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No, they won't lose anything. They'll just start taxing what is now considered 'free'. Just like heating / agricultural diesel is (almost) not taxed so will drinking water remain cheap and the rest will be slapped with 70% tax. It has happened with every new fuel in history. Just wait for the day when we have to pay based on wattage of our wind turbines or the number of sunny days the year had....Talking about free energy and cars running on anything else but oil/fuel, that certainly scares the mess out of a hell lot of CEOs and governments. Why? Just think of how many billions of $ they would be losing out of...
Some electricity corps are already building electrical stations to charge vehicles because they want to remain on top and keep their monopoly. And governments like monopolies because it keeps the prices high and a tax is usually a percentage. Also it is a lot easier to get the tax - instead of tracking 500 companies for possible evasion, they prefer to work with 5. It doesn't matter whether it's about oil, tidal forces, geysers and so on.
To illustrate this, the prices for electricity in the USA (fossils) and Iceland (geothermal) are almost the same. The meanest corps can be the governments themselves, check the prices in the so-called good countries to live like Sweden, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Price_comparison
This is the vicious circle that needs to be broken and not some absurd idea that claims to use the heat from a refrigerator to cook meals while the cooling of the stove through the steak can be used to freeze the meat in the fridge.