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Carbon tax to hit polluters where it hurts
| aggregated from: Currents |
The pocket book. - yup, until the average driver gets hit over the head with a hefty gas tax, we're just not going to be conserving our precious fossil fuels. The BC provincial government is doing the right thing by putting a carbon tax up for consideration in next year's budget (as reported in the always vigilant Public Eye Online by Sean Holman).Sure, make allowances for people who buy more fuel-efficient vehicles and for truck freight carriers that would otherwise get hit with a disproportionate share of the tax. But the wave of gas-guzzling SUV's that has hit the roads over the past decade...
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| aggregated: 1 year 2 weeks ago | topics: carbon tax, tax |
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Legislation making UK first to put carbon cuts into law still 'inadequate'
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said the government would strike an independent committee on climate change to advise on five-year carbon budgets and introduce carbon trading schemes for large to medium size companies and public sector organizat...
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Gas prices affect TransLink
Matthew Burrows in the Georgia StraightTranslink gets a flat 12c a litre of the provincial fuel tax - no matter what the gas sells for. The feds of course get the GST which is based on price and taxes (tax on tax - only in Canada!). When the price go...
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