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Comment by sam345 | Hacker News Reader

Wow, where is that?

Northern California is not much different. It actually makes most plug in hybrids cheaper to run on gas than electric at around $3.50 a gallon and below.

https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o...

Germany. I know this because I pay the same.

Same here, it's actually one of the reasons I am looking to move to Canada now.

Our country has been mismanaged in this regard to a point where I don't see this being solved in the next 20 years, also ideologically the majority does think low energy prices are bad now, so don't event want this fixed.

I'm surprised to see market efficiency/management as a reason to move to Canada - usually in such context it's protectionism, milk tokens, etc. being (negatively) discussed.

Is the 'hydro' (as they call it) cheap there? I heard the opposite, but that from a Canadian, so perhaps it's just that it's gone up a lot (as everywhere) and they didn't appreciate their lower starting point.

Edit: oh, very variable between provinces - https://www.energyhub.org/electricity-prices/

Yep, highly variable based on the province. In Quebec it's so cheap that electric heat is common.

But yeah, the corruption is pretty bad here (of course, relatively speaking in the context of first world countries). A few dozen large corporations basically own our government.

Germany's energy market is a huge mess, I read that consumers are heavily subsidising extremely cheap energy for commercial users.

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