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Originally Posted by Chingas
I am with the jerks at direct energy.
My gas and power bills were a combined $700 for January. The carbon tax line item on the gas bill alone I believe was $85. I also presume that there was a corresponding increase in the service and gas charge but don't have the evidence to back that up. I don't have the bill with me and won't be back home for a few weeks but I can provide exact details at that time if you are interested.
The $100 a month carbon tax wasn't hyperbole. Further more my original point is that I think that this whole program is ridiculous. I do wonder why it is a blanket program that will negatively effect businesses that are trying to sell these items. Wouldn't a better use of these tax dollars be to provide tax incentives to green power start ups, or assisting people that can't afford to replace their old 35% efficient furnaces instead? Or how about subsidizing shower heads, light bulbs, furnaces, do dads etc and have people at least invest some thing of their own into things? A free for all program that is aimed at collecting the low hanging fruit with little scrutiny just feels like a mess in the making to me.
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Those numbers don't add up to me, unless you're using gas power in which case your bill is $700 gas.
The carbon tax doesn't hit electricity (if it does for anyone just using the grid, you ought to look into that).
At $700 in gas alone you should be paying around $75 carbon levy. If your actual gas bill is less than $700 (minus electricity) then $85-$100 is insane and you should be taking that up with your provider, because the number is way off from the what you should be charged.
You need to evaluate those bills, because Direct Energy seems to be charging you more than they should be. That's a provider problem, not a carbon levy problem.
For comparison's sake, my gas and power bill was $150~ last month, with a $13 carbon levy (so $163~ total).