"...However, the horrendous rise in gasoline prices is not all bad news. Or perhaps I should say, it is bad news for almost everyone, except for two classes of people. (a) Those happy folks well-insulated from the grim pinch of inflation by high incomes, and (b) those in elected office who are pushing the mad dash to killing the oil and gas industry. This latter involves all those politicians and green clerics who are determined to make gas and other fuels so expensive that poor people will be unable to afford them at all. High gas prices are what they have been dreaming of. For high gas prices will force the peasants to “go green” whether they like it or not.
And the political class is exuberant to the point of delirium, that years of blocking pipelines, harassing the oil and gas industry, demonizing fossil fuels and promoting various and mightily subsidized green energy — plus latterly Vladimir Putin’s frolics in Ukraine — have turned oil into a precious commodity, and made prices at the pump for the ordinary Canadian an investment second only to the mortgage he or she cannot get.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-a-compassionate-government-would-kill-its-carbon-tax-right-now
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