As a matter of policy the green side believes that higher fuel costs will give people an impetus to conserve fuel, change their habits, and adopt green technologies. That's the main rationale for a carbon tax at the consumer level, right?
And yet here in BC as fuel costs rise, we have Premier Horgan calling on Ottawa to provide "leadership" on the issue of higher fuel costs, and we have Attorney General David Eby vowing to sue Alberta for economic damages should Premier Notley make good on the threat to switch the existing pipeline over to bitumen.
It all seems very contradictory. Why, if increased fuel costs are a good thing, is Horgan asking for Ottawa to do something to stop it? Why is Eby threatening to sue Notley for "economic damage" resulting from increased fuel prices? I thought this kind of "economic damage" was exactly the kind of impetus greenie types believe is necessary to drive people to embrace green tech.
Should Eby also sue Horgan and Weber for economic damage resulting from higher fuel prices?
-k