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Originally Posted by Tinordi
I've defended my point about as much as this debate warrants it. If you think the price of something has no impact on the consumption and then back it up with laughably bad analysis then I'll give your argument the defense it deserves which is derision and ostracism.
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Have you really? Because I've probably missed it, but I would be very interested in a substantial study on the price elasticity of gas. It seems to me that it's incredibly inelastic, but I haven't looked at a ton of data. If you've put in the work, please share.
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I will reiterate my argument: We can argue the relative effectiveness of the tax to lower gasoline demand but to claim all it is is a cash grab that will have no impact is both ignorant and false.
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I think that the point is, and I might be wrong, that if the money being charged for this gas tax was actually used for environmental purposes, it could actually be useful. But as it stands right now, it's just a chance for the NDP to spend more money. So instead of two potential positive outcomes (lower gas consumption and higher spending on environmental mitigation) we only get the former and not the latter. And the argument is that the former is much, much weaker than the latter.