Sunday, May 25, 2008

An unlikely place to get an idea about elasticity of demand for motor fuel in Canada

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation website contains an online poll
that, at the moment, contains the following results:




Two thirds of respondents are either driving less or purchasing a more fuel efficient vehicle. It's no surprise that Canadians are responding to price signals which is the motivation behind introducing a tax shift in the first place.

Now if only the CTF could be convinced that using less motor fuel is a good thing, or that the tax rebate part of a carbon tax shift plan would also be a good thing...but alas who knows what they think since the same webpage shows that they are getting their information about climate change from Friends of Science, the oil industry funded organization that may be in trouble with Elections Canada over un-registered election spending during the last Federal election.

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