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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
avilewis@mstdn.ca ("Avi Lewis") wrote:
Striking that the Liberals and Conservatives offer the same response to pain at the pump: siphon money out of the public purse instead of Big Oil’s profits.
Oil companies are on track to make tens of billions in windfall profits from Trump’s illegal war in Iran.
It’s their profiteering that’s driving up prices. It’s them who should pay.
It’s time for price caps on gas to stop oil companies from price-gouging Canadians — and a windfall profits tax on war-time oil revenues, so the government can invest that money in the public interest.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-fuel-excise-tax-affordability-9.7162911