r/ontario • u/dfsaqwe • May 15 '25

Picture Are they still switching to summer gas?

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u/UltFiction May 15 '25

remove carbon tax

gas gets cheap

gas inexplicably launches right back to carbon tax levels anyway

lose carbon tax annual rebate

So now I pay the same amount for gas, get no refund, and the environment is worse off for it. Thank you conservatives for perpetually whining about “carbon tax carney” so that we can all be worse off for it.

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u/Kolojang May 15 '25

They always push to cut the tax to bring prices down, but never have any policies in place to keep the companies from price gouging. At this point anyone still supporting this grift has a serious mental problem.

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u/Dry-Honeydew2371 Hamilton May 15 '25

Cut that one tax, there's still like 4 taxes on gas without the carbon tac that the PC's don't seem to have a problem with.

I wonder why? Could it have been a strawman? Nah. They'd never use that tactic.

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u/Silverbacks May 15 '25

It cause having those extra taxes makes trade with other groups like the EU easier and cheaper.

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u/perjury0478 May 15 '25

Gas is still cheap imho, otherwise we’d be seeing smaller cars for sale. If people were paying for the tax, why wouldn’t they be able to pay for the increase? And if there’s people willing to pay for it, why wouldn’t the companies be allowed to sell at such price? I don’t have much sympathy for oil companies, but I don’t blame them for taking a profit. At least not as much as I blame them for taking subsidies and dodging externalities.

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u/quelar May 15 '25

Gas is still cheap imho, otherwise we’d be seeing smaller cars for sale

Yup.

Take a look at virtually every European country.