On July 1st, 2008, a BC Carbon Tax took effect. Lefties say it won’t affect gas prices. The chart below begs to differ. The average gas price in BC was $1.40 for a consistent length of time and then July 1st it spiked over 2 cents. Coincidence?? I think not.
I hope Canadians are paying more attention to this than Stephane Dion is!!
You can view various gas price statistics by visiting this link.
Just another example of Canadian Taxpayers getting OfficiallyScrewed.
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I’d like to know which “lefties” said the BC carbon tax wouldn’t affect the price of fuel – the tax is applied to the price of fuel. So no, it’s not a “coincidence” that the price of fuel went up over 2 cents when over 2 cents was added to the price.
Something tells me you’re rarely successful “trying to make sense of it all”.
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I don’t know where you’re getting your information from, you should do more research. As Lenny said, the BC carbon tax was designed to affect the price of oil, because it targets consumers instead of producers (which is Dion’s plan). Additionally the Liberal Party in BC is about as right wing as you get in BC, so not only do you have wrong information but you’re attacking fellow conservatives using garbage arguments.
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actually Fred, Dion’s plan is supposed to target the producers. Not sure what rock you have benn hiding under. That is Dion’s supposed selling point, nail the oil industry.
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Well paulstuff, when I am paying more to heat my house, my business and fill my lousy barbeque tank, I will be sure to thank Dion for “nailing the oil industry”
What rock have you been hiding under?
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Uh, Jim, that’s my point. Dion is trying to sell the plan as taxing the polluters, such as the oil industry.
The reality is, like you pointed out, it’s really the average Joe who will be paying. Dion says he will target the big producers, and must figure we will just stop heating our houses and using electricty to come out ahead on the revenue neutral plan. I did a post on my blog about Dion and the Liberal’s deliberately misleading Canadian’s.
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Paul, I am sorry that I misread your comment.
As humans, I believe we are far more responsible than we once were…when I was a kid we recycled nothing. As a young lad in his first job, I personally put engine coolant into the drains. I recoil at the thought of my past actions and do everything in my power today to recycle all I can and be a responsible citizen of the Earth. I believe in a greener way of life and responsible action, but do I need to be hit with the tax stick to do it?
NO!
Besides, I think market conditions are already having the desired effect on us normal working stiffs…I see less cars on the road, and in my automotive repair business I am feeling the negative effects.
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Paul re-read my comment. I’ll reiterate what I said: the BC tax is a tax on consumers (via gas prices), Dion’s tax is on producers.
My two cents: In terms of the two, I think Dion’s is actually better from both a political and economic standpoint. Politically, he can pit Ontario and the east against Alberta and the west, which is already firmly conservative. Liberals have nothing to lose by angering Albertans any more, and Ontario consumers escape relatively unharmed and happy that Canada is now ‘green’. That aside, Ontario already imports a substantial amount of gas from the United States, and gas prices across Canada (which would remain at the world price + regional taxes) wouldn’t rise as high as a BC style gas tax. For Albertan producers, Dion’s tax would make future projects less profitable. A tax on an exhaustible resource delays the extraction of the resource until prices rise – so this basically means that the projects will go ahead, albeit at a later date. Canada becomes green, the economy suffers short term but remains stable in the long term, and the Canadian tax payers see some extra cash through decreased income taxes.
….Bear in mind I’m conservative and I think Dion’s the last person who should push this through. He’s also reduced a good idea into nothing: the proposed carbon tax is too small to do anything meaningful to carbon emissions. Fortunately, market forces seem to be taking care of this issue in ways politicians haven’t.
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I hear that the extra tax on pop will be the one that will get everybody angry – CARBONated water. Just think, everytime you open a bottle of pop you pollute the atmosphere.
What next joggers, because they consume more oxygen and exhale twice the Carbon than a couch potato?
LIEberals will tax any/everything they can think of. I feel sorry if DeYawn gets a majority … then Central Canada will see what life will be like when the West leaves, and shuts off oil and gas to Central Canada.
The only problem is that the Maritimes will suffer until they get off-shore oil into production – for short “Offically Screwed” by DeYawn.
With the prediction of colder winters DeYawn will make a killing on natural gas and heating oil … as Trudeau once said …. “Let them burn candles.”
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LOL. What a bunch of ridiculous hyperbole. I’ll admit, the left can do just as well… maybe both fringe segments should get a grip?