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Originally Posted by Firebot
He stated he would be disappointed if the Liberals axed the carbon tax. He didn't reply on the exemption.
The only thing he wrote about the exemption was a few days ago
Which seems to be political spin.
Commenting about axing the tax in full, versus commenting about the most recent exemption are two completely different things.
Right now he's talking about the ideology of carbon tax and a rant about people with trucks.
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I've changed my view a bit since that initial post after hearing some expert views and other posters' comments. Agree that this is a damaging move now.
I think it's come to this for a few reasons, one being that government's should have been advertising heavily the savings of heat pumps and the real world financial impacts of sticking with heating oil. There are plenty of things that should have been done that weren't, and now Liberals are realizing the hurt will be too much(particularly for their election prospects). The other is that technology is only recently catching up. Costs will come down and eventually this will be a no-brainer. If heat pump tech was, say, 5 years ahead of where it was 5 years ago and where it will be in 5 years I think a lot of this would be easier.