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anecdotes but, I have combined Electricity / Gas bills, and after last winters bills, and seeing the floating rate this summer before locking in. The past few weeks I have not yet turned my furnace on for the winter, and instead I have been letting our house drop to 18/19 C overnight, then just opening the blinds on the south facing windows during the day, which has shot the house right back up to ~23C, not a huge change but across millions of people it would make a difference, we throw a sweater on to go to work this time of year already, just put it on during breakfast too, instead of on the way out the door.
2 years ago we replaced a dying ICE vehicle with and EV, which over it's total lifecycle will be responsible about 1/3 of the carbon emission of a comparable ICEV, in no small part because right off the hop we are basically saving $100/month owning it, mostly due to the price of gas.
So on a personal emissions level it has made a difference, the real challenge will be growing that difference to x9.5M the size, because I am only personally accountable for the actions of 4 people.
I'm actually also actively working on a project to prove out the return on investment on self sustaining some of my employers substantial electricity needs with solar, partially because after the boom over the past two years they are in a fairly strong cash position, and partially because the carbon tax allows us to project forward that costs will continue to grow without this investment. So I might be able to leverage the carbon tax for an outsized personal influence.
Yes, it does make a difference.
And it's conservative economists who came up with the idea, which leads me back to what I always say here. I really wish there were some conservatives in the conservative party, it might make them an attractive options.
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Yeah, the carbon tax is great policy. It lets the market figure out the best way to reduce emissions.
It's way better than the current plan to ban natural gas plants except under a certain specific set of circumstances. Better to keep raising the price of carbon - if AB needs peaker gas plants we'll pay the tax, and if there is a cheaper way that would happen instead. Maybe it's cheaper to reduce co2 some other way.