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Originally Posted by milomilo
So you pretty much agree with what I said then, that there are a lot of improvements to make? I agree with you, the province should take leadership and improve our trunk routes.
Outrageous amounts of gas tax? It's what, 10c/l? I know it'll be going up but it's still got to be one of the lowest in the non-US world. I'd happily pay more for better roads and transit.
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Lots of improvements can be made.
You're not even close concerning the gas tax. I think it's 10 cents/liter for the federal part plus some other BS tax that was put in place ages ago to fight a deficit IIRC. In AB the provincial rate is now 13 cents and I believe will be 20 cents as of January 1, 2017 (Rachel did say it's going up 7 cents/liter didn't she?). Feds will probably jack up their part of the tax as well. If it went to roads like it should I wouldn't mind but little of it does. I also couldn't care less what they pay in Europe. To be competitive we need to be concerned with what the U.S. charges and we're already way too high compared to them. It wouldn't be so bad if we actually pumped every cent of those taxes into roads instead of letting it disappear into general revenues.
This is an interesting chart for 2015 which shows the breakdown of a liter of gas for various cities in Canada. Note that this was before the latest 4 cent/liter increase in AB.
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http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/fuel-prices/gasoline-reports/18031#sup1
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