Carbon Tax Redux

[Taiga]

Need the EDIT button back to fix typos..

[LWeber]

The fee for an EV should be $1500 a year. They use our roads and should have to pay just like the rest of us.

Also, add a charging station you pay a flat fee of 2000 a year.

It's time, you want to play with Batteries that are way more environmentally destructive than oil you should also have to pay for roads and infastructure.

You pay to play.

Insanity knows no boundaries ...

[jazz]

Insanity knows no boundaries ...

ha and chuck slithers away right on time again.

They have an electric gas combo vehicle already, its called a hybrid. Wouldnt want to enhance that technology now would we, lets just jump right to clown world and see what happens.

[fjlip]

Many of us predicted/demanded a road tax on EV long ago in posts. About time, but YES x10 increasing annually, plus a HUGE recycle fee on the earth harming TOXIC batteries, up front!

[chuckChuck]

I see one of the usual suspects is calling for a luxury tax on EVs. So would that luxury tax apply to expensive trucks, cars, motor homes, boats and second homes? It's a slippery slope calling new cars and trucks luxury items. I thought most of you guys were opposed to increased taxes on the well off?

[SASKFARMER]

BS CHuck

[Spyguy]

Well easy to see the lefties are legally blind. Every thing we eat, drive, wear, live in or consume is hauled by large trucks. So if the lefties clean there glasses they could soon see that the commercial truckers will have to raise there transportation rates to the consumer so who the hell do you think will be paying for this heavy truck tax. Man the stupid things that come out of people is mind boggling. Wow.

[chuckChuck]

Might have to rename the Sask Party as the Regressive Conservatives. As many jurisdictions world wide and in Canada are providing incentives to electrify and reduce carbon emissions Saskatchewan is going the other way with the first road tax on EVs that looks to be a political decision.

On the other hand, with a record deficit, the Regressives cut the royalty on associated gas production in a gift to the oil industry. Zero royalty! This royalty cut will cost taxpayers millions of dollars and the EV tax will currently bring in $60,000. Can the Regressives do math? LOL

"Associated Natural Gas Royalty Moratorium"

"The Province is implementing a royalty rate of zero percent for a period of five years on all natural gas produced in association with oil. The royalty moratorium begins April 1, 2021 and will remain in place for five years, with a sunset date of March 31, 2026."

https://www.mnp.ca/en/insights/directory/2021-saskatchewan-budget-highlights https://www.mnp.ca/en/insights/directory/2021-saskatchewan-budget-highlights

[Guest]

Do you know anything about the trucking industry, existing taxed fuel consumption, IFTA and/or fuel use permits, interprovincial apportionment, strategic weigh scales, and on and on? Sorry where are the subsidies? Commercial vehicles conducting trade contributing to the economy

The problem is not with the trucking industry here
The local mill is allowed about 20% extra weight in the winter as long as it below zero
Meanwhile the pavement is ten degrees warmer as all the global warmer sheep know
They have totally destroyed the highway since their re-opening a few years back
This is a lighter 9 month primary
It wrecks the trucks and trailers too, shit flying off all the time
It’s pure bullshit , truckers don’t wanna haul 84kmt either but they have to

[chuckChuck]

So Case it looks like you are in agreement that the heavy trucking industry causes the most road damage?

[Guest]

sure is here, but they're forced into it

[Taiga]

Yeah logging has special rules in almost every province. Forced to haul more tonnage, $ rate per tonnage is lowered, more weight, more axles, less income, harder on equipment, harder on roads, no thanks. Abusive industry.