I was referring to our provincial government — Harper is federal. I should have made that more clear.
“How do they collect a carbon tax from people who heat their homes with wood? “
They don’t, nor should they. Firewood isn’t a fossil fuel — new trees take the CO2 out of the atmosphere, as quickly as old ones are burned up.
Electricity mostly escapes the carbon tax here; on the basis that it’s mostly hydro generated. That wouldn’t be the case in most places.
You are right about the ease of collecting the tax — it’s much cheaper to administer than a cap and trade scheme would be.
I knew that, but there is a coat-tail effect when the party in charge of the national government is looking better that helps local government from the same party. With Harper doing as well as he is and Obama such a disaster in the US, I was wondering what was the attraction of a leftist government in BC.
They don’t, nor should they. Firewood isn’t a fossil fuel —
Unlike coal, nether is oil and gas. They are mineral fuels formed from methane left over from the planet's formation remaining in solution with the earth's mantle then polymerized by bacteria deep in the crustal layer.