Taxi Industry Feeling the Carbon Tax Pinch
The carbon tax has taken effect. On the first of the month, gas shot up over night by 16.7 cents per litre. It now costs a pricey $1.74 per litre when you fill up your car with regular fuel.
The carbon tax has taken effect. On the first of the month, gas shot up over night by 16.7 cents per litre. It now costs a pricey $1.74 per litre when you fill up your car with regular fuel.
The Atlantica Centre for Energy’s Michelle Robichaud says Atlantic Canada needs “immediate and effective decisions” to help ease the strain caused by rising fuel prices, while respecting the goals of carbon pricing and our need to reduce emissions.
A Fraser Institute study estimates that a $170 per tonne carbon tax will result in the province’s economy contracting by 2.2 percent, cost nearly 2,200 jobs and reduced per-worker income by 3 percent.
New Brunswickers could soon be paying more for gas, diesel and heating oil products.
When Colby Boudreau made his last bulk purchase of gas it cost him $1.06 a litre, but the price at the pumps in the Halifax area has since fallen to nearly $.70 a litre. “The customers are happy, everybody’s happy except me.”
Fuel market analysts say the quick return to the facility and the fact that fuel storage tanks are likely full means the refinery shutdown should have little short-term impact on consumers.