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Randall Denley is an Ottawa political commentator and former Ontario PC candidate.Infamous: Second Son has just received a few more details about its special ARG called Paper Trail, which includes in-game missions and online quests for players who want to explore more of the game's universe. It sure beats putting anti-tax stickers on gas pumps. The environmental effects would be immediate too, in the form of reduced emissions.Ī hybrid incentive would give Ontario PCs a viable alternative to the carbon tax, one that is easy to explain and would have real benefits. Rather than putting out money up front, they’d start saving as soon as they pulled off the lot.

A hybrid incentive would enable people to buy a more fuel efficient car for the same money as the conventional model. Polls suggest Canadians want action on climate change, but they don’t want to open their wallets to do it.

Electric cars should be included as well, of course. A similar move by the federal government would make it even better. A smart government incentive could take away that price gap and the easiest way to do it would be to eliminate provincial sales tax on hybrids. The price gap between hybrids and standard cars has closed considerably, but it still takes three to five years to make up the price difference through fuel savings. Toyota’s popular Corolla uses 6.7L/100 kilometres but the hybrid version consumes only 4.5L/100 kilometres. Even people choosing small cars can do much better with a hybrid. Instead of choosing a Ford F-150 with a fuel efficiency of 9.5L/100 kilometres, drivers could dramatically lower than fuel consumption by buying a Toyota RAV4 hybrid at 6L/100 kilometres. Right now, four of the five best-selling vehicles in Canada are pickup trucks, this in a country where most people live in cities. Federal government set to announce agreement with Alberta over proposed heavy emitters carbon tax.Costs of Ontario climate plan would be double Liberal carbon tax, raise household costs: report.

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Rather than punish people with a carbon tax or encourage them to buy cars they don’t want, why not reward drivers for buying the fuel efficient hybrid versions of cars people are used to choosing? Recommended from Editorial When the province provided rebates of up to $14,000 per vehicle, sales still only reached three per cent. In Ontario, less than two per cent of new vehicle sales are electric. The problem is, people don’t buy them in significant numbers. In addition to the carbon tax stick, Liberal governments have favoured the carrot of subsidies for electric cars. If the cost of gasoline gets really, really high, we’ll do something right? Economists like to think of this approach as a nudge, but it’s more like a kick in the pants. Liberals believe the solution is a carbon tax, to punish people into choosing more fuel efficient rides. Now consider that transportation produces about 35 per cent of Ontario’s total emissions, about half of that from cars and light trucks. Our vehicles are also the largest in the world. Article contentĬanadian vehicles have the world’s highest average fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions per kilometre driven, according to a recent report by the International Energy Agency. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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