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Diesel Cuts Bad for Economy (and Planet)

Posted on September 09, 2008

What do you do to win an election? Roll out the pork of course. And so Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces a proposed tax cut on diesel fuel, even if it will dig Canada even deeper into an economic and climate hole. Canada already emits more carbon per capita than almost any other country on Earth. Our total carbon emissions are number seven worldwide ??? more than the United Kingdom, which has almost twice our population. Harper???s solution: make fuel even cheaper.While this might play well in an election campaign it is the exactly the wrong direction to be taking our nation ...

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