{"id":931,"date":"2008-07-02T22:53:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T03:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2008-07-02T22:53:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T03:53:05","slug":"bc-carbon-tax-has-immediate-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"B.C. Carbon Tax Has Immediate Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 1st, 2008, a BC Carbon Tax took effect.  Lefties say it won&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Canadians are paying more attention to this than Stephane Dion is!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image930\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/BC%20Gas%20Prices.jpg\" alt=\"BC Gas Prices July 1st, 2008\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can view various gas price statistics by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcgasprices.com\/retail_price_chart.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just another example of Canadian Taxpayers getting OfficiallyScrewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 1st, 2008, a BC Carbon Tax took effect. Lefties say it won&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,39,44,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dion-goofups","category-numbers-dont-lie","category-officiallyscrewed","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}