Rex Murphy: Burning the budget to heat the home
Obviously, with a successful election well behind her, those words are now moot. There will be a gasoline tax, and the rationalization for her reversal is, of course, the fight against climate change. The logic is basic, as far as economics is concerned: raise the price of something and people will buy less of it. And if people buy less, they drive less, and if they drive less, why then Ontario will, by some infinitesimal degree at some utterly indeterminable time, be cooler.
This is pure nonsense, of course, because gasoline is neither a shoe nor a watch. People do not fill up their tanks for show or therapy. They buy only what they need. People drive, almost exclusively, where they need to drive: to school with their children, to work, to run errands, to visit aging relatives. It’s something people in this world of ours need.
Rex Murphy: Burning the budget to heat the home | National Post
Only Liberal progs could be so stupid as to not get that. But they care about people other than themselves, ha.
Obviously, with a successful election well behind her, those words are now moot. There will be a gasoline tax, and the rationalization for her reversal is, of course, the fight against climate change. The logic is basic, as far as economics is concerned: raise the price of something and people will buy less of it. And if people buy less, they drive less, and if they drive less, why then Ontario will, by some infinitesimal degree at some utterly indeterminable time, be cooler.
This is pure nonsense, of course, because gasoline is neither a shoe nor a watch. People do not fill up their tanks for show or therapy. They buy only what they need. People drive, almost exclusively, where they need to drive: to school with their children, to work, to run errands, to visit aging relatives. It’s something people in this world of ours need.
Rex Murphy: Burning the budget to heat the home | National Post
Only Liberal progs could be so stupid as to not get that. But they care about people other than themselves, ha.
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