Vielleicht sollten Ölkonzerne die Zapfsäulenpreise begrenzen, anstatt Poilievre die Steuer für 2-Dollar-Gas in die Schuhe zu schieben
https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/maybe-oil-companies-should-cap-pump-prices-instead-of-poilievre-blaming-taxes-for-2-gas/article_583dd335-a54a-482e-b20c-591845ed92a6.html
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If you want to claim Alberta seperatism is all an American psy-op (it never was), politicians like Aaron Gunn and also whomever wrote this article needs to stop suggesting Alberta or oil companies charge anything less than market rates
The idea of being taken advantage of by Canada is what drives seperation sentiment, has been my whole life
Stuck on that jingoism and those easy answers, eh PP?
And what’s the plan for the ~15 billion hole in road/infrastructure maintenance that scrapping the tax would cause? That money would have to come from somewhere else.. or we just gonna not bother with keeping the roads in useable condition?
It’s called the free market and supply and demand. The market will match supply with demand. You cap the price you are at risk of shortages. The Star must know this is Econ 101.
He’s owned by his lobbyists, just like every other politician. They are a bunch of greedy cowards, don’t take any of their words seriously.
I mean, why not both? We should structure an excess profits tax for the oil sector, and can use the revenue to fund a gas tax holiday, and another boast to the GST rebate.
If we just did a 15% surtax above a certain level of increased profit, the same way we did for the banks in the pandemic, that’s $9B. Or put another way, $.10 off on the pump and a 50% increase in the GST rebate.
Cutting Provincial taxes would take another $0.07-$0.20 off at the pump, and cost another c. $8B.
We *could* go much further than that, and do a surtax that approaches 100%, as excess profits scale. Effectively, a cap on profits, and prices.
The problem is the global oil market has had a consumption rate and has a had a certain production rate going to market. Which makes rougly the price we see at the pumps. Trumps and Isreals war in the middle east has disrupted all the oil going through the straight and hurting production as industry gets destroyed. The other thing is the invasion of Ukraine has also been another problem, as it has taken some of Russias oil off the market and Russia has hurt itself.
With all the oil coming off the market current oil that is on the market is more valuable and is being sold at a higher rate becauze consumption is still the same. People want to go drive around on their ATVs, drive their big trucks into work, heavy suvs and other fuel consuming things. People are not taking public transportation (or biking infrastructure like in finland. They get snow too but still bike and have the infrastructure) in the citys because it hasn’t been made to be reliable and has been built as an after thought so people drive primarily (similar to the states. Citys were built for car infrastructure primarily). So consumption hasn’t gone down, prices adjust, you can reduce taxs, cap, etc but unless consumption reduces demand will stay the same.
Sounds like a terrible idea.
Didn’t we just go through 2 decades of climate action noting that we need to increase the price of fuel, so that there is consumer and industrial incentives to reduce usage?
Why are we now going through exploring how we can artificially reduce these prices?
I feel like I am taking crazy pills.
I mean depending on where you live you’re paying between .30 – .80 cents in taxes per litre. Most other g7 countries are giving breaks, not like this is a crazy thing to say.
Acting like a private companies have more responsibility to take care of us then our government is hilarious
Just what we need, instead of Poilievre’s bad solution, we find an even worse solution. I’m begging these people to understand supply and demand and not just blame everything on an arbitrary „greed“(which is literally how markets work).
Capping prices doesn’t work for almost anything anywhere. Elementary level economic mental model thinking to pretend capping prices is a solution(most of the time).
Taxes are roughly 30-50% of your price of gas depending where you are in Canada. For sure this could be a huge benefit to Canadians to cut these taxes.
We have some taxes based on “the right thing to do” that are good in spirit but Canadians cannot afford to keep paying in times like these. You have to ease up some costs for people.
Maybe prices are a signal and instead of burying our head in the sand we can respond with adjustments to how/why we use oil.