Comments on: Canada Kills Clean-Car Rebate Scheme

By: serpico

serpico — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:02:52 +0000

Here in BC, the carbon tax is a bigger issue.

By: George Labrador

George Labrador — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:22:58 +0000

Well Gas or Petrol has now come down a few cents per litre here in Ontario and according to a few experts it will come down more soon as the Canadian dollar is currently well above parity with the US dollar closing today at $1.02!!
This program was only going to run for two years in the first place so nothing has changed and yes Gas users vehicles will still pay extra for that convience!

By: dean

dean — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:11:16 +0000

Good. It’s bad policy with an arbitrary cutoff.

By: Blunozer

Blunozer — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:21:17 +0000

With the price of gas skyrocketing, I guess buying a fuel efficient vehicle is its own reward. Gas is rapidly approaching five bucks a gallon here. (currently $1.20/litre)

Glad my wife and I took advantage of this when we did.

By: lprocter1982

lprocter1982 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:23:28 +0000

To be fair, they need to get back some of the tax dollars they’ll lose from allowing up to $5000 to be saved, and not taxing return on investments. So, of course, the logical thing to do would be to treat new green car buyers the same as average car buyers.

By: serpico

serpico — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:53:21 +0000

Ah, what else is new. I think a V8 Mustang is waiting in a lot for me. LOL

By: Gardiner Westbound

Gardiner Westbound — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:45:04 +0000

The other half of the program, stiff tax surcharges on some high fuel consumption vehicles, will continue.