Today ‘overlegcomité’ about the energy crisis: will we quickly feel it in our wallet or is that false hope?

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  1. The only thing you could technically quickly feel in your wallet will be the extension of current measures (social tariff, lower VAT).

    I don’t think one overlegcomité will be enough to decide on major stuff like putting a cap on energy prices somehow (I don’t think it’s possible without it just being a tax for later), shifting around taxes so wages increase, or…

    Maybe for companies they could already decide on a relief/delay of certain contributions/taxes to help absorb the shock, but I’d be surprised.

    The things that could ease the market quickly are things like Europe gas reserves being properly filled, countries successfully decreasing their energy/gas requirements, Norway, Qatar or USA helping us out somehow,… I think these things happening are not a guarantee but not unlikely either.

  2. I’m not getting my hopes up and not expecting anything, so all they can do is pleasantly surprise me.

  3. If the prices are going to be capped at a certain price, i guess every variable contract will be the max price? But what do they do with fixed contracts, do they also have to lower the price to capped price?

  4. As far as I have known Vivaldi crisis meeting have always been about own party profiling, thwarting coalition party solutions/proposals, pomposity (dikke nek), false promises etc. So I am not hoping on anything.

  5. They need to stop handig out money asap. Any money they hand out should be taxed first.

    Or you make inflation only worse.

    Only pain will get us through this shit. The longer we wait, the harder it’s going to be.

  6. I don’t get how people think our Belgian government can fix this European problem. We’re stuck in the habit looking at the govt every time something happens.

  7. I’m lucky enough to own my own roof, so I made an appointment for solar panels today. At current prices, it’s paid back in two years…

  8. I’m sure they’ll find more ingenious ways to f* the middle class. Like forcing owners of solar panels to use power when the sun is at its peak. Because it’s not like people have jobs or anything. I wish living of the grid was more feasible so I could be done with this BS.

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