RE:RE:RE:I am still laughing at the Equinox comparisonRE: CLIMATE CHANGE, CO2 {CARBON} TAXES....<br /> <br /> I have a theory on why governments are pushing carbon taxes to combat "climate change. Of course climate has always "changed" with glacial/interglacial cycles observed in the rock record in the Pre Cambrian, LateOrdovician, Permian and the quaternary...with all showing no causative influence of C02.<br /> <br /> My old 2007 Xterra got about 14-15l/100 km. My current Toyota Rav4 hybrid gets around 6.6l/100km. Similarly the Mazda 3 that I rented for a couple of months this summer was in the 5-6l/100km gas consumption range. I attribute a lot of this improvement in gas mileage/kilometerage to either improvments in gas/electric hybrid technologies and, in many cases the common adoption of the CVT transmission in many vehicles.<br /> <br /> And so it occurred to me as I drove down the highway this summer....the average mileage of the Canadian car fleet has improved by roughly 40-50% since 2007. Both provincial (or state) and federal governments tax gasoline. And when overall gasonline consumption drops by 40-50%...so does their tax revenue. . Now from the government's perspective, it really looks crappy if they try to recoup their tax revenue losses due to technology improvements. However if they can sell a carbon tax as preventing climate change....well that just goes over a lot better to the econuts and climate "scientists". omething to think about the next time you vote Liberal/Democrat or NDP....Its all about the taxes, climate change is the excuse.