staying warm is now a sin...
Posted on 10/23/2019 8:02:59 AM PDT by Skepolitic
The tax, which some critics deem a "sin tax," will be to the amount of $0.24 per gallon. The genesis behind the law is to continue the city’s push to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...
A 24 cent tax on fuel oil is a baby step towards the Green New Deal.
Fox News clip at https://video.foxnews.com/v/6096967693001/#sp=show-clips
As expected, the Seattle government intends to subsidize low income folks who are adversely affected, which illustrates the futility of carbon taxes. The tax is no big deal to affluent progressives, so it's cheap virtue signaling for them, but the carbon tax won't affect their behavior. They subsidize the low income folks, so the carbon tax won't affect their behavior (CO2 emissions same as before for those two groups.) However, the middle class of working people, however, would bear the brunt of the carbon tax. As far as the progressive elite is concerned, the middle class (i.e., what Marxists call the bourgeoisie) can either pay up or freeze in the dark.
That's why the French had large, vigorous protests every weekend for a year: their middle class recognized what their socialist elite had in store for them. The US middle class had better wake up. US Democrats have the same in store for it.
I’ll bet it amounts to $1.00 per gallon or more over current pricing.
Check California’s “low carbon” gasoline...
Yep this is the plan for globalists everywhere. God bless my conservative friends in Canada.
That is just insanity. Leftists are simply saboteurs at every turn at this point.
“...That is just insanity. Leftists are simply saboteurs at every turn at this point....”
They’re outright rabid communists that hate America and hate Americans.
The sooner this is realized by Americans, the sooner they can be eliminated.
Well to be honest I just don’t care! The people that live there have voted these fools that pass these ridiculous laws into reality so they have no one to blame but themselves!
Let them freeze in the dark, as they walk to work and eat grass.
People are going freeze to death because of this.
“.......Revenue from the tax will provide rebates and grants for Seattle homeowners to energy-efficient electric heat pumps.””
We have a 5 ton electric heat pump in Southern California. Cost us a bundle to put it in. Contrary to popular belief we do freeze in the Winter here. The heat pump is useless unless you go to emergency heat under 40 deg. fah. Emergency heating runs our electrical bill up into the stratosphere, so we use spot heaters in those sections of the house we most occupy.
I don’t see these things as being real efficient in Seattle’s climate. More Democrat BS.
“ “a requirement for heating oil tank owners to decommission or upgrade all existing underground oil tanks by 2028. Revenue from the tax will provide rebates and grants for Seattle homeowners to energy-efficient electric heat pumps.” Conversions and upgrades to furnaces can be expensive, adding another layer of expense for Seattle residents.
The law does propose that low-income residents will see the cost of their conversion covered, noting that “approximately 1,000 low-income households are estimated to be eligible for a fully funded conversion.”
It will turnout to be thousands and thousands of dollars for the middle class because of the mandated conversions from oil to electric heat pumps. In addition to the cost of the heat pump, there will also be huge costs related to tank and furnace removal and “ environmental” disposal. There likely will be some fee for soil replacement, too.
I guess that’s one way to reduce housing prices in Seattle.
It’s impossible to be carbon-neutral guess what is used to make solar and wind power products pipe dream endues.
Screw Se-addled (new name I jus made up)
In the evergreen forests everybody has a wood stove and they won’t freeze. Neener neerer
see tagline!
If the homeless don’t have heat, nobody should have heat...unless they are rich.
Almost all life on Earth is based on carbon.
The democrats want to kill us off (not them of course).
Some people will not be able to heat their places. The politicians don’t care.
The tax is a burden on those older homes that still burn oil for heating. Those people are on fixed income. The purpose of the tax is to be able to upgrade houses to other means of heating namely electric. These older pensioners who are being taxed are ineligible to receive the upgrade they’re being taxed on.
massive rent increase ..
Luckily many now have electric heat and they will stay... crap PG&E shut off the power.
staying warm is now a sin...
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