RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Div hike or Debt reduction?Yasch22 wrote: Fullyautomatic, I realize you've got a farm & shop to run, but I'd be interested in seeing a short summary of your cost bases for a wood-fired boiler vs natgas heating. The difference must have been huge, especially if you'd already sunk costs into running a line to your property.
How much extra time do you put in per week to get your supply of wood? Pellets, or cordwood?
Compare maintenance?
Also, you must have some amazing neighbours if they're OK with you smoking up the local valley with that boiler. No health concerns for you, yours, and the old folks living up the hill?
Also, just wondering if you realize that the first carbon tracking (2003) and pricing mechanism (2007?) was put in place by Conservative Premiers, though it was applied to large emitters, not across the board. On the federal level, Stephen Harper was dead keen on setting up a cap & trade mechanism in 2015, but then of course he lost. The Libs, NDP, and Greens, representing something like 70% of the population, were in favour of a carbon tax.
Last point: you blame the NDP for the carbon tax, as they charged $20/ton in 2017 and raised it ot $30/ton in 2018. But Notley was simply putting in a provincial alternative to the federal plan, wasn't she? Jason Kenney repealed the NDP's tax in 2019, but then almost immediately accepted the federal system, right?
In 2020, he even increased the provincial tax on heavy emitters to $50/ton to keep the administration of that tax within Alberta's jurisdiction.
Yasch,
I really do have amazing neighbours, all long time landowners, farmers, cattlemen and skilled tradesmen. Not one complaint from smoke, mind you my nearest neighbour is at least 1 mile away.
I've got about 800acres of treed pasture land so we collect deadfall all summer cut er up and throw it in. No control boards to repair or digital equipment to trouble shoot as there would be on a modern high effiecient boiler, so I'm fairly confident future maintaince is also less with the "low tech"
Surely it's more work, but keeps a guy in shape and teaches the kids some lessons on work and preparation, soon I hope they will be old enough and that will be a part of their summer. Cutting wood in the bush....
I do blame the NDP, as it surely wasn't something they advertised as policy during the election. Our rural ridings at least in my area all voted Wildrose, but the NDP caught the right divided. I think it's a slippery slope once it became policy the subsequent govs where caught having to go along to get along. Kenny is no friend of mine.
As far as I know I don't get a carbon tax rebate and I certainly don't get more for living in a rural area... Anyways I tell people this story all the time and it does, to me at least, provide edvidence that the tax is regressive and can stifle innovation.
I'm sure 80%+ of the voting population lives in cities and I would never ever choose to trade places with them. To me living there isn't really living at all, it's existing on a good day..