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Column on carbon tax ignored some key points Print E-mail
Written by -- Roy Nagel
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Friday, 09 May 2008
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Re: Carbon tax complainers out of gas, out of touch (Neil Godbout column, May 9).
Neil Godbout's column urging northerners to quit crying about the carbon tax ignores several key concerns in the North.
We are not communities of commuters with shorter jaunts to work than Vancouverites; our community economies and our livelihoods are resource-based. Extracting, processing and hauling timber from our forests to mills consumes millions of litres of diesel fuel and gasoline every season. The mining and oil/gas industries use millions more.
A carbon tax penalizes these industries by increasing their costs and making us less competitive with Alberta industries where no carbon tax exists.
And don't forget that higher fuel prices mean everything we buy and use, from groceries to furniture, will inevitably cost us more as transport fuel costs rise.
-- Roy Nagel
Prince George
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Well said Sir!
written by D.K. Ross , May 09, 2008 (10:39:43 PM)
I am so tired of the enviro-whiners! Maybe we should go back to coal furnaces and out-houses. Hard to get a Latte or double double when the gas is out... Put on yer leathers ya bunch of Pussies. Let's see what yer REALLY made of...
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Agreed!
written by allniter , May 14, 2008 (03:14:16 AM)
As I mentioned in another thread, seniors on fixed incomes are penalized by this tax, too. Natural gas, used in many of their homes for heat, is already horrendously expensive, and isn't it going up 11% this year?? That, in turn, increases that damned tax.

For some of these folks, eating properly is already difficult because of the cost, so they're getting double-whammied big time.

Had to smile at your post DK. That same week I jokingly mentioned to my parents that they sould switch to coal :)...thanks for the chuckle!
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