B.C. premier's attention shouldn't be on carbon tax

B.C. premier's attention shouldn't be on carbon tax

VANCOUVER - With the price of gas nudging $1.50 a litre in the Lower Mainland, the absurdity of B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell's carbon tax becomes daily more apparent.

The immediate impact of the new tax, to take effect July 1, will be to add a further 2.4 cents a litre to the price of gasoline at the pumps.

This is what happens, I'm afraid, when you surround yourself with cockeyed crusaders on climate change, who promise to craft you an environmental "legacy."

The trouble with the tunnel-visioned eco-idealists advising the premier is that they can't see outside the narrow confines of their own obsession.

In designing a single-issue policy to force people out of their cars and onto the bus, they conveniently ignore what's happening in the wider world.
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...contrary to what he apparently believes, people are not stopping each other in the cold June streets to exclaim: "Oh my God, did you see it's going to be two degrees warmer in 100 years?"