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Originally Posted by renormalised
If they did that to me, I'd cause such a stir they'd be looking for ways to emigrate to get away from me  I'd take that to court, for a start. That basically means that anyone in France that used a generator to power something, not even necessarily their house, could be charged and taxed on the electricity they made!!!!.
This is just the sort of nonsense that needs to be stomped on...governments have gotten away with too much for too long. |
Well the argument at the time was that he was using a portion of the of the stream that was powering a bigger hydro-plant down the river so in essence the plant was getting less of it. I know it's BS but it's the law. EDF is a massive
govt subsidised corporation. Would be like a Windows end user suing Microsoft.
Now I can see something like this happening here in the future with everyone who got a gvt rebate (or not) for installing a water tank. I can garantee you that one day we will be taxed for water consumption coming from our own water collection arguing that it didn't make it to the storm water network to the catchment or storage area therefore we're using it and should (will) pay for it.