How carbon pricing will affect families REALISTICALLY
8How carbon pricing will affect families REALISTICALLY.
Carbon pricing WILL make life more expensive and difficult for families.
Go to 11:12 in the video to see an example of how mine and my mom's lives would be different if we tried to go green to benefit from the carbon tax.
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Ecofiscal's "myths" about carbon pricing:
https://ecofiscal.ca/10-myths-about-carbon-pricing-in-canada/
Do you agree that carbon pricing will make life more expensive for families or not? In this video, I talk about only 2 ways that carbon pricing negatively affects families in Canada. According to Ecofiscal, "carbon pricing is the fairest and cheapest way to fight climate change" which is simply not true for families. Do you know how expensive it is to go green with energy?
If you want solar energy for your home, you can expect to pay a minimum of over $2000 for a 1kW array. With a 4kW array of solar panels, you can expect around $3000 in rebates. Don't forget, you probably need other equipment and rewiring done in addition to the solar panels, so let's add $2000 for that stuff as well. That's $4000 minimum. If you rent your place, you don't even the choice of getting solar panels. Your landlord has to to pay for it or at least permit you to do it and if they do it, your rent will likely go up.
Another way to "benefit" from carbon pricing is to get an electric vehicle. An electric vehicle can cost you up to $16000 or more compared to a gas vehicle. That's not really affordable. Sure, you save about $200 a month on gas, but you pay $600 a month for the lease.
Carbon pricing, if it supposedly "needs" to be implemented, should be placed on big corporations producing all the carbon emissions. The government should be driving innovation for greener energy instead of demanding payment. Families shouldn't be affected unless the government is also going to give the means for households to go green at no cost.
If you are a low income household or on the low end of the middle income spectrum, then carbon pricing will make your life difficult. My mother and I are on the super low end of the middle income spectrum. Our rent alone is $1200 and that does NOT include utilities. At the end of each month after just paying bills, we have less than $100 to spend. We basically live on pasta because it doesn't spoil, is cheap and you can get a lot of it. The only real way for us to "go green" and benefit from the carbon tax is to carpool or take transit instead of driving our own vehicle. See 11:12 for why that doesn't work. My mother has Multiple Sclerosis so taking the bus is next to impossible. "Why doesn't she use transit for disabled people?" well, because she can drive perfectly fine. The whole point here is to reduce carbon emissions. The driver would have to come from wherever they are to get mom, take her to work, then again for her to come home. That's more driving than mom driving herself.
Thanks for watching, I hope this video was somewhat informative and I would love to know your thoughts on carbon pricing.
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