B.C. charges consumers $2.56 per gigajoule in carbon tax on their home heating bills.
Brian Wourms pays his household bills regularly and on time and usually doesn’t think twice about it.
“I never look at my bill, I just pay it, but last night for whatever reason I actually looked,” said Wourms. “I burnt 19.3 gigajoules of fuel and I have to pay $49.38 on $109.45 in fuel and when I did the math it’s 49 per cent. That’s based straight on how much I used. He was also billed $1.06 to the BC Clean Energy Levy , and $15.78 for the federal goods and services tax which amounts to five per cent of the entire bill.
The Liberal B.C. government began collecting carbon tax in 2008 to encourage consumers to shift away from fossil fuels and help the province achieve its targets for reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
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