Dear Editor:
We’re eliminating our gas use.
Our household just received its October carbon tax rebate of $210 from the federal government. We are going to use it to replace our gas stove with an electric induction one. Better cooking. Better indoor air. Better health.
But more important, our small shift away from another gas application will reduce fossil fuel pollution. The impacts of that pollution are only getting worse as we witness climate change enhanced storms, floods and heat waves across the country and around the world.
There is no escaping it, fossil fuel pollution must be paid for; either as a planned and progressive carbon tax and rebate supporting good changes, or through soaring costs on many fronts – health, food production, and insurance to name a few.
The cleaner options are available and the rebates we receive help us make them. Don’t buy the oil company’s unproductive “axe the tax” bafflegab. We can and are doing what needs to be done: eliminating one fossil fuel application after another!
Stan Kozak,
Guelph