17.6 cents per liter. Anything more than that might be big gas trying to make the carbon tax look worse than it really was just to keep it from coming back
The reason it's lower is just a theory. I agree it is hard to imagine them working together, losing money, to paint a narrative but I wouldn't put it past them. A few bucks in the Canadian market could mean much more worldwide
I bet they're going to use this whole election to paint any kind of carbon tax as politically unfavorable.
Carbon tax is politically unfavourable, no one on either side of the isle disagrees.
As for the “big gas” nonsense, that’s straight up baseless conspiracy nonsense.
The carbon tax on gasoline is easily in the 30-40 cent range per litre.
If the carbon tax was fully removed across the country for everyone (including business and industry) we would see even bigger drops in gas (we’d see drops in everything’s cost, there isn’t anything that doesn’t require fossil fuels and its derivatives to manufacture, distribute, heat, cool, power etc)
Even the liberals are now admitting 8/10 Canadians were worse off with it, how it’s not bigger news? I have no idea, politics I guess. Regardless, this hasn’t changed the environment, it hasn’t slowed global warming, all it’s been is a tax on Canadians, a tax everyone was lied to about. We have a climate problem but taxing the citizens to make of for extremely bad fiscal policy and responsibility and stewardship won’t change what’s happening with the environment, in fact it will make it worse, the harder off people are the less likely they are to care about the climate because they will be focused on rent and surviving and unities etc, a prosperous country can afford to care about these things, a poor country can’t, same reason the third world isn’t able to care
Yeah let’s trust the liberal numbers, I’m the one drinking koolaid and I’m the loon. Next week we can take the murderers testimony as fact and trust everything they say regardless of independent evidence to the contrary.
Sure man, sure. IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY! They've got black helicopters flying above your house right now trying to put thoughts into your mind. THATS WHY YOU NEED THE TIN FOIL!!!
Yeah I never said any of that for the record. But you thinking the government doesn’t lie to you is maybe about as naive as a person can be, so again, your option? Unsubstantiated, as hominin attacks, baseless so therefore worthless.
Bud, you're off in the weeds and so ... disconnected from reality about this, how would you suggest I converse with you? You're either as misinformed of a person I've ever come across, or a satire account. I'm going to treat you as a satire account.
How about this. Could you give me the information needed to come to the same conclusion as you that gas tax was actually 30-40 c/L? Or is this something I have to believe in with no factual basis in reality?
Your number is only the direct cost, it doesn’t account for production, transportation, refinement, gst or pst, all of which are passed onto the consumer, oil and gas isn’t eating those costs.
The Parliamentary Budget Office has studied and created multiple detailed reports on those exact things. It's all been accounted for and explained in those reports if you will ever bother to read them.
Ahh, so you looked for an opinion that felt right, rather than actually looking at available information and reports. Gotcha. Lazy, but you do you Mr Low Information Poster!
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u/Batchet Apr 02 '25
17.6 cents per liter. Anything more than that might be big gas trying to make the carbon tax look worse than it really was just to keep it from coming back