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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
Thanks for your response. It wasn’t bait.
I wonder if most purchase related to the carbon tax (EVs, heat pumps, etc) were either subsidized, or would have been made regardless of the carbon tax?
I don’t agree with the government firing out more money to cover those purchases. More government spending might translate to more inflation. Probably turns the whole carbon tax into a bigger mistake.
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The math on the payback period for something like upgrading to a heat pump is non-viable without carbon pricing - frankly, natural gas is too cheap here in Alberta. EV's are kind of in-between and at the mercy of oil prices, but an increasing carbon price de-risks your calculations.
Not all purchases are dependent on rebates, but there is definitely a marginal point in there where a number of decisions are being made on carbon pricing. At the current near-insignificant amount of tax, the number of decisions are similarly small, but it was going to go up as we move on.
Now, I know that I can't trust the government to follow through, so my math for any future upgrade will change.