How're you gonna spend your $100 Dividend? I've put some possible options in a poll, but take a minute and tell everyone what you're gonna do with all that money...
Dave
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DaveB
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ANDYD
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Green house gas ..
Talk about a head shaker ....
I was stuck in traffic today when a big old transit bus went chugging past in the HOV lane, clounds of diesel smoke puffing out the exhaust and no one on the bus except the driver! :shock:
Maybe I should use the $100 to pay the fine when I shoot down the HOV lane after him! :P
ummm... just belly-aching :arrow:
I was stuck in traffic today when a big old transit bus went chugging past in the HOV lane, clounds of diesel smoke puffing out the exhaust and no one on the bus except the driver! :shock:
Maybe I should use the $100 to pay the fine when I shoot down the HOV lane after him! :P
ummm... just belly-aching :arrow:
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seapotato
mindbuggeringly stupid.
isn't something like 45% of the cost of fuel tax already? . So, in the last 5 years, they've pretty much DOUBLED the amount of tax they collect on fuel.
I also had to laugh when they bumped up the fuel tax to fix the highway to whistler.
errr, isn't that WHY there's a tax on fuel in the first place?
you would think that SOMEWHERE amongst that 60 or 70 cents per litre you pay in tax ALREADY, they could divert a bit for a carbon/green/plant a token freakin tree fund.
but, nope. guess that would cut into the raises they likely plan for themselves next year.
I'm just putting the check into my account, because looking at the freaking thing just pisses me off.
isn't something like 45% of the cost of fuel tax already? . So, in the last 5 years, they've pretty much DOUBLED the amount of tax they collect on fuel.
I also had to laugh when they bumped up the fuel tax to fix the highway to whistler.
errr, isn't that WHY there's a tax on fuel in the first place?
you would think that SOMEWHERE amongst that 60 or 70 cents per litre you pay in tax ALREADY, they could divert a bit for a carbon/green/plant a token freakin tree fund.
but, nope. guess that would cut into the raises they likely plan for themselves next year.
I'm just putting the check into my account, because looking at the freaking thing just pisses me off.
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DaveB
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Well, the way I figure it, they're saying the tax will add about 2.5¢ per litre of fuel. I drive roughly 4000 KM a month for work, in a fuel efficient Honda Civic. I get 17.6 KM per litre on the highway, which works out to .14¢ per km. That means that the $100 cheque should cover about 18 months of the additional fuel tax. Not bad really... On the other hand, in the Discovery I would use up the dividend in about 7 months of driving, if I still used it for work.
As far as a tax to make us think and act more environmentally responsible, I think 2.5¢ per litre is something of a joke. If they really wanted to make us think about it, they'd put a 50¢ per litre additional environmental fee on fuel. Then we'd really be steamed every time we visited the pumps — not to mention there would be a revolution.
But look at all the dollars that could be raised for a real transit system that you could really use... :roll: ...if only the dollars were spent where they should be... hmmm light rapid rail to every community in the lower mainland, lots of cross routes, kind of what most real cities have had for the last 50 years...
Oh, and one of them 400 kph maglev trains from the Okanagan to the coast and points around the interior and island... :lol:
Dave
As far as a tax to make us think and act more environmentally responsible, I think 2.5¢ per litre is something of a joke. If they really wanted to make us think about it, they'd put a 50¢ per litre additional environmental fee on fuel. Then we'd really be steamed every time we visited the pumps — not to mention there would be a revolution.
But look at all the dollars that could be raised for a real transit system that you could really use... :roll: ...if only the dollars were spent where they should be... hmmm light rapid rail to every community in the lower mainland, lots of cross routes, kind of what most real cities have had for the last 50 years...
Oh, and one of them 400 kph maglev trains from the Okanagan to the coast and points around the interior and island... :lol:
Dave
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