carbon tax

Growth in BC GDP in the past decade was solely due to onshoring of foreign money to the RE market. Got nothing at all to do with the carbon tax.

BCs real drivers of GDP forestry mining oil and gas are on the skids and now the RE market is teetering. BC will be the next have not province.

Chucks cut and paste skills are useless and just show someone's disconnect with reality. They used to electric shock people like him.

maybe he doesn't realize BC is a money laundering experiment???
wonder if they could get enough amps out of a solar panel for the shocking

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The thread title is Carbon tax

Very astute observation.
Thank you for proving my accusation that you don't Bother to read anyone else's posts or links before responding with your ready to serve, pre-chewed cut and paste irrelevant responses. You have been responding to the thread title all along, not the posters.

[fjlip]

Still, with a growing economy and declining emissions, the historical data indicate that BC’s GHG intensity per unit of GDP, a leading indicator of decarbonization success, fell 19 percent since 2007.


CC you can discuss the hell out of C02 models, estimates, calculations, forecasts, most of us have a real hard time believing any of the CLAIMED figures. Impossible to prove for sure. Any can be ADJUSTED to fir the desired result. Massive amount of data, many humans inputting, errors can be huge. Same with a WORLD average temperature, real simple to arrive at that to a tenth of a degree...it's to complex to be simply C02!

[fjlip]

"The other fact you continue to talk about is farmer's being exempt from carbon taxes! This is not true on natural gas and propane used for heating or drying grain. We pay carbon tax on both and consumption has not decreased."

And we are supposed to pay for ON ROAD diesel hauling grain/livestock! Good luck calculating that FEDS!

[blackpowder]

So a steep increase in the road tax should increase gdp as well.
Right, I forgot that all the carbon tax income is going to the new green industry income driver.
How lucky we are to live in a country where a heavy consumption tax actually raises the standard of living.
Now we can develop our warp drive at last.

[Hamloc]

A5 why are you worrying about the carbon tax or greenhouse gas emissions because you don't believe in human caused climate change science anyway.

So why waste our time telling us that carbon taxes don't work. According to you there is no problem so why bother discussing any measures to reduce emissions?

Chuck what always amazes me is how people like yourself attempting to prove how wonderful B.C.'s carbon tax always use 2007. In 2008 B.C.'s carbon emissions dropped 2-3 mega tonnes going by memory, I would have to look, due to the economic recession that began in 2008. If you compare 2017 emissions to 2008 in B.C. they have gone up. The fact still remains that B.C.'s total emissions have not gone down and continue to rise contrary to IPCC policy. The other fact you continue to talk about is farmer's being exempt from carbon taxes! This is not true on natural gas and propane used for heating or drying grain. We pay carbon tax on both and consumption has not decreased. You refuse to directly address both points!!!

[jazz]

The thread title is Carbon tax

Growth in BC GDP in the past decade was solely due to onshoring of foreign money to the RE market. Got nothing at all to do with the carbon tax.

BCs real drivers of GDP forestry mining oil and gas are on the skids and now the RE market is teetering. BC will be the next have not province.

Chucks cut and paste skills are useless and just show someone's disconnect with reality. They used to electric shock people like him.

[chuckChuck]

No, this thread wasn't originally about BC's CO2 tax, it was about the failure of CO2 tax to dissuade farmers from using fossil fuels to dry their grain, you took it off on a tangent about BC.

The thread title is Carbon tax

[chuckChuck]

A5 why are you worrying about the carbon tax or greenhouse gas emissions because you don't believe in human caused climate change science anyway.

So why waste our time telling us that carbon taxes don't work. According to you there is no problem so why bother discussing any measures to reduce emissions?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

No, this thread wasn't originally about BC's CO2 tax, it was about the failure of CO2 tax to dissuade farmers from using fossil fuels to dry their grain, you took it off on a tangent about BC.