Sask Energy Users , check your bills, WESTERN PRODUCER ,HERE IS A STORY FOR YOU

[Hamloc]

Almost all the farm groups have asked for a rebate or exemption for natural gas or propane used for grain drying. Which seems a reasonable request considering the year.

But the Sask party have never mentioned a specific rebate request. The NDP asked them to work together to request a rebate but they said no! Too busy playing politics, was the answer!

The carbon tax on my Oct/ Nov bill is is about 40% on the actual gas consumption or about 13.5% of the total bill. A whopping $25.21! I used a small amount for drying. The rest was normal heating and household use. There is no carbon tax on the gas delivery charge or the basic monthly charge.

This is certainly putting pressure on my farm financial picture! The banks are calling every day and I am thinking of calling Ritchie Brothers and moving to Florida to play golf with SF!

Chuck I posted in the Cabon tax percentage thread about how unevenly the carbon is applied across Canada, if it is such a climate emergency why is it ok if residents in some provinces pay a much lower carbon tax?

[wd9]

The most insane part is there is no transparency to how the money is being spent - or how it is reducing anything at all.

[fjlip]

Same here CO2 TAX is 39% of gas cost...the advocates of such insanity should be in JAIL!

[Herc]

The most insane part is there is no transparency to how the money is being spent - or how it is reducing anything at all.

Exactly. I thought everything went back to the province other than the apparent GST scam. Yet Trudeau said our rebates will be less next year even with an increase to $30/tonne. Factor in the harvest from hell that injected a pile more revenue to Ottawa due to drying grain.

Where is the money ending up??

[blackpowder]

JT has a long vision. To place us for the next century. Not to get stuck in the present. His words.
Tells you something about who's voting for him. Goofy carbon tax to general revenue, OK. But an increase in GST of 1 or 2%? No no, that won't sell.
Haha.
Perhaps he can get any dumber??
Maybe all the provinces can get the same deal as QC.

[MBgrower]

When trudope gets his majority back next election (and he will), gst is going up 2 points.

[bucket]

Really too bad if he would just quit spending stupid ...there wouldn't be a problem in this country...

If he would have committed to the TMX without buying it canada would be better off....

[blackpowder]

No. The problem is he's lived in a bubble all his life. Half the country wants the same deals as one region.
Neither he or any of his group could fathom that. He will get a majority next term. Nothing will change.
Except maybe I'll retire lol.

[LEP]

Why shouldn't a farmer pay carbon tax on dryer propane or natural gas?

If farms grew 25% of the grain they do now, the price would be way up, far less carbon from fertilizers, no fungicide required, 1/4 the transportation cost and you could cut your drying cost by 75%.

And you'd make more money in the end with far less work and risk and much easier on the environment.

But hells no, next year you're going to try and put 250 lbs on N on instead of 200, 3 trips with fungicide instead of 2, 2 trips with hormone regulators, and months beside the dryer all the while complaining about the price. Now you're a good farmer.

Of course that assumes we are the only country in the world that grows grain. FFS anything we forgo in production will be soaked up by the US, FSU, South America, Mallee and on and on.

We don't live in a bubble.

[Guest]

So why un fu-ck isnt everyone phoning sask energy and where in fu-ck our our conservative MP’s ??