An amazing event happened yesterday in Victoria, BC. The British Columbia Provincial Government became the first North American State or Province to introduce a carbon tax effective July 1st this year. And it's neatly packaged such that the extra tax that we'll all pay when buying gasoline will be refunded through lowering of other provincial taxes. It appears to be "tax revenue neutral". and if so, is a major step towards changing our behavior and taxing us as we pollute!
What isn't clearly understood is that each gallon of gasoline that our cars consumes (each gallon weighs 6 pounds) combines with the amosphere to produce 19 pounds of carbon emissions or greenhouse gases as some of us! For us, each litre produces 5 pounds! What I don't know and would love to someone to show me is what these 19 pounds of greenhouse gases look like! Then it would make more sense to all of us. A picture is truly worth a 1,000 words!
This really now sets the stardard for the rest of us! Well done!
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