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 suggest we paid less than $400.00 in carbon taxation during 2023.

During 2023, my wife and I received $688.75 in “climate action rebates”. We probably got a little

more because our last payment for 2022 covered several weeks of 2023, but let’s round it up to $700.

We received about $300 more in rebates than we paid out.

We do well on carbon taxation because we have been doing exactly what we should to reduce

carbon emissions. We started over 30 years ago – long before anybody thought about taxing carbon!

We added insulation to our house – lots of it.

Our windows are triple glazed. Our furnace is 96%

efficient.

Acting in the best interests of our planet has long been important to us.

It’s time that attitude was

more widely adopted!