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  "tags": [
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  "textContent": "The leaked European Commission recommendation on electricity taxation landed quietly, but it said something that European energy policy has avoided stating plainly for decades. Electricity is still taxed and loaded with levies as if it were a polluting end product rather than the clean energy carrier Europe increasingly depends on ... [continued]\n\nThe post Europe Is Finally Admitting Electricity Is Overtaxed appeared first on CleanTechnica.",
  "title": "Europe Is Finally Admitting Electricity Is Overtaxed"
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