ECA Review 2024-03-21

14 M arch 21'24 HANNA/CORONATION/STETTLER, AB. ECA REVIEW
BREEDERS’
FEDERAL CARBON TAX
2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030
Natural gas (GJ): $2.10 $2.63 $3.33 $4.10 $4.99 $5.78 $6.57 $7.36 $8.15 $8.94
Gasoline (L): 0.09 0.11 0.14 0.18 0.21 0.24 0.28 0.31 0.34 0.38
Cost will be unobtainable
Cont’d from Pg 4
The cost will be unobtainable; 0.77
cents per gigajoule (GJ) increase in tax
alone on Apr.1.
To put this in a realistic value, take
your gas consumption today which
most homes between a 1000 sq. ft.
and 1350 sq. ft. would use an average of
20 to 30 GJ of natural gas.
Today you are using, say 25 GJ
times $3.33/ GJ to make a cost of $83.25
per month on carbon tax in the colder
winter months.
Now take this same 25 GJ in 2030
times $8.94/ GJ and you are paying
$223.50 per month. This is without any
consumption, transportation, distribution
fees and GST increases, which
will never happen, right!!
So that means, being conservative,
your bill will be at least twice as high.
Take your bill, do the calculations and
see the true numbers yourself.
Now gas is going to add another .04
cents per litre, plus all the increases.
What we see nowadays is every time a
bird flies over we now have a fuel
shortage, threats of war, turnarounds
or any other excuses the oil companies
use to jack up the price. Add this to
your other commodities such as food,
lumber, clothing, you name it and you
will see people in Canada in a dire case
of financial woes.
Justin Trudeau is now talking how
people are struggling to make ends
meet, the high costs and inflation out
of control but does nothing to help; he
just keeps increasing taxes and giving
money away.
Who does he think he’s fooling; and
who does he think caused these problems.
He is the number one driver in
Canada for all high costs which have
been brought about by carbon tax and
his dream of “Green Power.”
Yes, we have to change things, but
this is not the way. Canada lives in a
cold climate with long distances to
travel and these things are necessities,
not frills!
All governments need to get on
board a program that keeps life affordable
for everyone. Solar and wind
power are two big pushes that have
little, to no effect in the Prairies, which
is way out to lunch in costs and
reliability.
Look at Medicine Hat’s solar power
program and see. The Mayor was all
for solar power and in 2014 the City
spent 12 million on a system that was
mothballed in 2019.
The reason being, it was not economical
to operate. They say it will need a
Natural Gas price of $19 to $20 a GJ to
make it feasible to run.
Turn to Cannot, Pg 16
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