The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) reports on the situation in the European car markets:

• car sales in the EU collapse for the 5th month in a row, the decline in November was 20.3%
• The total number of sales in November was 713346, which is the lowest level ever since the collection of these statistics, i.e. at least since 1993
• a double-digit drop was recorded, in particular, in Germany (-31.7%), Italy (-24.6%) and Spain (-12.3%)

Gallego and other members of the delegation — Reps. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.), Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) — are calling on the president to move faster to send lethal military aid to Ukraine.

Gallego said the people of Ukraine have "the will to fight, the capabilities and the skills" to fend off Russia, but the U.S. must provide them with Javelin and Stinger missiles, drones and other equipment.

Maximum deterrence "means we have to kill some Russians," Gallego said on CNN Sunday, while he was still in Kyiv. "They only understand pure power. And we have to give the Ukrainian army and special forces the ability to do that."

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Consumption of the residential sector is growing rapidly across the country as well. For the second year in a row, the population has been increasing electricity consumption by an average of 4–6%, says a Kommersant source familiar with the statistics. Moreover, the share of the category with consumption over 600 kWh per month is about 40% of the total.

According to Rosseti, the consumption of the population is growing by 5% for the second year in a row: in 2020, the supply rate was 111 billion kWh, in 2021, 117 billion kWh is expected.

The main complaint of power engineers against illegal miners is the payment of electricity at low tariffs set for the population. Numerous complaints from market participants forced regulators to return to the long-standing and sensitive problem of the industry - cross-subsidization (when businesses compensate for the reduced tariffs of the population). The amount of the subsidy is growing every year. In 2019-2020, businesses paid extra 237 billion rubles for the population, and in 2021 the figure will already reach 241 billion rubles, Kommersant was told in the Market Council (regulator of energy markets). And now the industry is subsidizing not only citizens, but also the very lucrative production of cryptocurrency.

But it is not easy for regulators to decide on such reforms: any form of increase or some kind of restriction of energy tariffs for the population causes serious social tension. Moreover, "farming" is not developing in the richest regions.

As a result, the Ministry of Energy says that the decision to differentiate tariffs for the population "refers to socio-economic policy" and should be made at the government level. Now they are talking about a compromise: increased tariffs for volumes "beyond reasonable for household consumption," say the Council of Energy Producers.

Nice.