Dan Jørgensen
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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It's the price of the energy, it's the taxes and the levies, and it's the transmission costs.
Now, the only things that is physics and just basically the market working is the price of the energy.
The rest is politics, if you will excuse the pun.
So, the levies and taxes, well, that's up to the governments.
And one of the things that we are recommending member states of the European Union is, why don't you lower the tax on electricity?
In many member states, and I believe this is also the case in the UK, if I'm not mistaken,
The taxation is actually the opposite.
So there's less tax on gas than there is on electricity.
Some member states of the European Union, there's four times more tax on electricity than on gas.
And that's a political choice.
And if you chose instead to make it much, much cheaper to use electricity, you would alleviate some of the burdens on your industry, you would make it easier for your citizens to pay your bills, and you would also help the transition that we need long term, which is
to get these black molecules out and the green electrons in.
The North Sea is going to be key for energy in Europe in the future, but not because of oil and gas, because of wind.
We have huge untapped resources in the North Sea that will help generate electricity for all of Europe.
On the gas and oil question.
So Denmark, the country that I come from, we have actually to some degree since the 1970s
financed our welfare state by selling oil and gas that we got from the North Sea.
But we decided when I was minister to put an end date to production of oil and gas in the North Sea and to stop all future licensing rounds.
Not an easy decision because we were actually the biggest oil producer in the EU when we made that decision.
Why did we do it?
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