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Originally Posted by J-Walker
Actually, no they don't - you couldn't be more wrong. They don't drive even comparably as close to as much as North Americans do. Look at the transportation data from European countries, this is just a fact.
An yes, if you increase the price of a good, people will demand less of it, its basic economics. The relationship between a good's demand and price is its price elasticity. Its a fundamental tenant of free market economics, and has been proven over and over again. There is no debate surrounding this.
So basically, you are 0 for 2 on this one.
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More BS, with higher gasoline prices in Europe people have adjusted to spending more on fuel with their disposable income, gasoline, home heating, food are all essentials where the laws of supply and demand argument doesn’t fly.
The Liberal backed population that live in the golden horseshoe and Quebec City/ Windsor corridor have access to some of the best public transportation in Canada so yeah Imposing a carbon tax effects them less, in true Liberal fashion the rest of the country be damned!
And I already have mentioned there are lot more public transportation alternatives in Europe that don’t exist here, how about increasing the amount of public transportation instead of penalizing people from getting from one place to another!