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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Sounds like you will be as minimally impacted by this as possible. There's always more that can be done but with how angry you are about this I would have thought you drove a hummer and lived in the least energy efficient home imaginable. If most Albertans made the choices you've made as far as living environmentally responsibly they would have introduced a pst or something of that ilk rather than a tax that will have the most impact on those driving gas guzzling SUVs or making life choices that in other ways that are bad for the environment.
The tax sucks, but I find it funny that even with all this notice most Albertans chose to spend their time complaining rather than use the time until it is introduced to make some changes like making their home more energy efficient or switching to a more fuel economy friendly car. So that they wouldn't notice the tax as much, maybe even not notice it at all, or God forbid they actually might come out ahead, simply by doing things they should already have been doing.
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That second paragraph is rich. Those things aren't going to offset the tax. The problem is that for most Albertans heating their houses is a necessity and that is one of the biggest impacts. Making your home more energy efficient isn't just a quick little switch to flip either, and to make real meaningful impacts is going to costs thousands of dollars, if not tens of thousands.