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Fast Facts: Climate Change
- By 2010 the gas tax will make the poorest 20 percent of BC families $47 a year worse off, while the richest 20 percent will gain $311 a year
- The gas tax, according to the government’s own calculations, would only contribute 7.5 percent of the hoped for reduction in carbon by 2020
- For the gas tax to have a significant impact it would have to increase from 2.4 cents a litre to at least 24 cents a litre
- The BC government gives the gas and oil industry a subsidy of $1.3 billion over 4 years
- The government is pushing ahead with a massive expansion of highways in the Lower Mainland, while Translink is desperately short of money and needs at least 500 buses
