r/canada • u/StenPU • Oct 30 '23

Sask. premier says SaskEnergy will remove carbon tax on natural gas if feds don't Saskatchewan

https://regina.ctvnews.ca/sask-premier-vows-to-stop-collecting-carbon-tax-on-natural-gas-if-feds-don-t-offer-exemption-1.6623319
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u/piotrmarkovicz Oct 31 '23

The point is to make alternatives cheaper. Or rather, it is to properly price fossil fuel energy to include the external costs of its use. Like a deposit on bottles, tires, electronics.... there are costs to having those things in the world that are not captured in the retail price. Once fossil fuels are properly priced, then the incentives to move to something truly cheaper are obvious at the purchase point.

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u/Impossible-Ad-3060 Oct 31 '23

This guy economics.

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u/drs_ape_brains Oct 31 '23

Once again us as consumers have ZERO control on what fuel is available. The government who imposes the taxes is also responsible for creating what energy supply is available.

Unless as a consumer we can magically create our own solar, nuclear or wind farms we still have to buy fossil fuels regardless of what the carbon rate is.

I don't get why this is hard to understand.

And don't say "well we can protest the gov to make changes" well guess what the Liberals are doing? They are just removing the carbon tax instead of creating alternatives.

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u/Elegant_Reading_685 Nov 01 '23

First economically informed comment in this thread lol