Carbon tax would milk trucking industry/update

Cybergal · Jun 6, 2008

Carbon tax would milk trucking industry
6/6/08
Telegraph-Journal, Canada

New Brunswick is proposing a carbon tax based on the British Columbia model.
Here is a net effect: transportation costs would rise with increased fuel costs as a result of carbon taxes, prices of consumer goods and food would rise, inflation would then rise. Consumers would be paying $8 for a head of lettuce.

The proposed personal tax cuts would be offset by the increase in costs for food, clothing and medicine, all of which we import and arrive here by truck. The impact of a carbon tax would send shockwaves through the long-haul trucking industry.

Under the carbon tax regime in British Columbia the average owner-operator will see his or her taxes rise by $500 per month or $6,000 per year based on 180,000 kms of travel per year. The tax returned for this small business person will be $100 to $150 per year. There will be a similar impact on the large trucking companies.
The long-haul trucking industry has invested millions of dollars over the last two years in new technologies that lower emissions and reduce our carbon footprint.

Our concern is that a carbon tax would cost so much as to stop or act as a disincentive to our industry to continue our voluntary strategy of investing in green technologies.
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/article/317735
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Cybergal · Jul 12, 2008

Trucking industry hit hard by British Columbias new carbon tax
7/14/08
CANADA

British Columbias new carbon tax is far from revenue neutral for the provinces trucking industry some say, because it imposes a tax burden that transfers wealth to other taxpayers. The 2008 budget was lauded by the B.C. government and environmental groups for introducing a carbon tax, which came into effect on July 1.
http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id28882
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Ashort387 · Jul 12, 2008

I am a BC trucker living in the Greater Vancouver area, and I try to buy little or no fuel in BC, they can stuff their carbon tax up their. well you get the idea.

Cybergal · Jul 19, 2008

Carbon tax will make B.C better off, minister says

7/19/08

The B.C. government's climate action plan is not only good for the environment, it's also good for the economy and taxpayers, Finance Minister Colin Hansen told The Vancouver Sun editorial board Friday.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=356beb66-04fc-4341-acc0-46c73f3b8631
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dancnoone · Jul 19, 2008

This one piece of "green" legislation will destroy our countries as we know them. We need to wake up......

I really wish everyone involved would explain to me, "Just who in the hell is going to give their employees a 500% raise, the day after it becomes law?" Cuz it's going to take that, to afford anything delivered by truck. and.. "Who is going to FORCE China and India to comply?"

Will they use nukes ? Will they ban their products...simple answer...no.

IGM 462 · Jul 19, 2008

Good for the Tax Payers my ### !!!!!!

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