I rarely respond to readers of my opinion pieces because it is great when people have different opinions and express them. But when someone writes (Terry Snead of Musgravetown,"and I did not write nor mean that gas increased by 3.5 cents due to carbon tax. What I meant and wrote was that the carbon tax increased the cost to trucking companies by 3.5 per cent. I refer him to Stats Canada. I made no reference whatsoever to the “cost per tonne.
Year over year since the carbon tax was introduced, consumption of fuel by litres, not cost, has increased on an average of five per cent annually, so the carbon tax is doing nothing to reduce consumption and hence emissions. Investments in clean technology, affordable electric vehicles, hydrogen investment, and investments in businesses to reduce their carbon footprints, do. In my business, for example, a charity, we burn 17,000 litres of heating fuel annually and there are no programs to help us reduce. That’s 52 tonnes of CO2 or the equivalent of the emissions of 12 vehicles.
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