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Talking about Belgium, 40.000 additional homes are being connected to the gas grid every year (2020/2021). That's astounding.

We stopped mandating new connections. Great. Insidiously, though, Big Gas successfully lobbied for a price cap of 250 EUR for new connections to the gas grid.

So not only are we still allowing new housing to be heated with gas, we're saying that that's a-ok you can do it on the cheap.

It's almost as if politicians actively want their voters to feel disenfranchised. Who's going to tell those households in a few years that, "Whoops we made a mistake--so maybe this natural gas thing for heating wasn't such a good idea after all"?

At the same time, households who are leading the charge in the energy transition with heat pumps pay full cost, get no rebates, and, cherry on top, pay through the nose for per kWh surcharges on electricity that don't exist for natural gas.