The whole thing is stupid. Heating oil is already 25% cheaper than it was last year at this time, but now it's a crisis that needs an immediate response? It's pure politics between a desperate party and people who vastly overestimate the impact that the carbon tax has on prices when compared to market forces.
In the long term, heating oil has absolutely gotten more expensive, but it's not the carbon tax driving that. In the last 7-8 years the price has gone up by about $1 a liter, but people are blaming a $0.16/L carbon tax for their problems?
Though at least the price increases are working. Heating oil usage is dropping pretty quickly everywhere. It's just funny that people are blaming the government for the prices that are driving that movement, when it's almost entirely the commodities market.
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