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Old 09-09-2008, 11:41 AM   #168
Ronald Pagan
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction View Post
Most vehicles that run on diesel are going to run just as much whether there is a tax on it or not seeing as how these are mostly commercial vehicles. The tax will mostly just increase inflation on goods.

If we want to cut down on GHG emmissions from diesel, then we should buy locally more often (of course this can be a problem when you live in the west and the north).
Surely a small cut in fuel taxes will not affect consumption much, if at all. But, it's pretty widely regarded that pricing carbon is necessary to cost-efficiently reduce emissions. What Harper has proposed is to take a step in the opposite direction.

Further proof that he could give a shart about climate change.
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