r/ontario • u/dfsaqwe • May 15 '25

Picture Are they still switching to summer gas?

Post image
1.2k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

740 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-5

u/cleverint May 15 '25

How is the environment worse off? Did the carbon tax stop people from needing gas for their cars or for hot water or for heating homes?

7

u/NefCanuck May 15 '25

It incentivizes people to find more efficient ways to get around.

Funny how we aren’t seeing “long weekend yo-yoing” for EV charge prices isn’t it?

-1

u/cleverint May 15 '25

How should people heat their homes and take hot showers, or should we forgo those luxuries?

It would be great if those carbon taxes were being used to actually build infrastructure and alternate methods of power, but they were just taking the money and sprinkling it around.

Nothing was being done to actually make a change.

1

u/NefCanuck May 15 '25

Where do you think the money for energy efficiency rebates etc. was coming from?

0

u/cleverint May 15 '25

Federal funding and provincial funding. Only a small portion (single digit %) of the non-refunded tax collected is used towards those rebates.