Just got my gas bill today, amount owing is $350.
High yes it was a cold month, herein lies the issue.
When I read through the litany of extra services, the actual cost of the gas was $55.03, the carbon tax portion of the bill was $80.64, so I go to see what the carbon tax is worth relative to a percentage, and all I get is some mumbo jumbo.
So instead just do some simple math $350 divided by $80 gives an effective tax rate of 23 percent. That is like personal tax territory and for what?
I at least get some services for my personal taxes (legal theft) but this is ridiculous and to add insult to injury the carbon tax is placed before the GST tax which means I actually pay a tax on a tax and the carbon tax is higher then 23 percent.
Fortis Gas alone has 1,050,000. If they were just residential customers, that would be like $84 million a month. Where is all this money going or am I missing something here?
Tom Moore
Prince George
