http://meancouver.com/carbon-tax-faux-pas-or-fasionably-late/ not yet prorogued Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:04:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://meancouver.com/carbon-tax-faux-pas-or-fasionably-late/comment-page-1/#comment-42 JohnEdgar Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:00:46 +0000 http://meancouver.com/?p=185#comment-42 The Liberal Carbon Tax (or Green Shift plan) will not be taxing gasoline. However the BC one will and the resulting grumbles from the interior should come as no surprise for exactly the reasons you brought up. (especially since for many it takes a few hours of driving to reach the next settlement and almost all its food has to be trucked up through the mountains.) Dion went and spoke with Don Newman on CBC's Politics and gave a pretty good account addressing your concerns. Also, it turns out that the conservatives have been engaged in an active misinformation campaign to slander the plan before even seeing it, which explains a lot of the confusion. Still, it does seem a bit weird to be talking about taxing consumer end energy use while the tar sands is ass raping the earth as hard as it fucking can. The Liberal Carbon Tax (or Green Shift plan) will not be taxing gasoline. However the BC one will and the resulting grumbles from the interior should come as no surprise for exactly the reasons you brought up. (especially since for many it takes a few hours of driving to reach the next settlement and almost all its food has to be trucked up through the mountains.)
Dion went and spoke with Don Newman on CBC’s Politics and gave a pretty good account addressing your concerns. Also, it turns out that the conservatives have been engaged in an active misinformation campaign to slander the plan before even seeing it, which explains a lot of the confusion.
Still, it does seem a bit weird to be talking about taxing consumer end energy use while the tar sands is ass raping the earth as hard as it fucking can.

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