Canadian Carbon Tax info from Peter Bursztyn from Barrie, Ontario
Canadian Carbon Tax info from Peter Bursztyn from Barrie, Ontario Here’s how the carbon tax worked for us in 2023. On home heating, hot water and cooking (all gas) the carbon charge was $200.45. Fuel for our car is harder to work out because we travelled in USA and Quebec. Assume our driving (11,179km) was in Ontario and fuel bought here. Our average consumption was 5.56litres per 100km, so we burned 621.5 litres of diesel over the year. The 2023 carbon charge on that was $108.03. (If our car had used gasoline, the carbon charge would have been less per litre [$0.143/litre instead of $0.174/litre], but a gasoline-powered vehicle would have used more fuel.) Adding the two together, we paid $308.48. There is a carbon charge embedded in many goods representing fossil fuel used to make and transport these and the tax paid by a retailer to heat their premises. I have no way to calculate these, but this would be a much smaller number than what we paid directly. I will sugge