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Originally Posted by densa44
If this is the wrong place for this question, Cat just delete it.
I have read just about everything published on this site about the carbon tax, but the price I'm paying for gasoline at the pumps is the lowest in years.
Is there a short answer how this is possible?
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The short answer is 99% of everything posted on this site about the carbon tax was misinformed garbage harvested from made up Facebook memes that had on basis in reality. Great example of how you can scare and manipulate people with partisan rhetoric with no basis in reality.
Oil prices are low, carbon tax on gasoline is relatively tiny. Oil companies largely exempted from paying carbon tax on emissions.
The fearmongering on other stuff about food prices increasing etc with carbon tax also never came to pass (food prices increased faster in SK where there is no carbon tax).
No oil companies fled AB because of carbon tax. Coal companies are switching to gas faster than the government proposed as they see its cheaper.
Alberta's economy now growing faster than anywhere else in Canada as we recover from the price of oil.
60% of households get rebate checks and huge interest in Energy Efficiency rebates and freebies funded by the c-tax.
I'm not sure how Jason Kenney is going to be popular announcing he is going to cancel a tax that will automatically be replaced by the federal one that applies to all provinces that don't have one (SK is the only hold out).