Instead, it's a black hole of who knows where it goes.

It goes into those cheques they mail out every few months, that they somehow completely failed to label "carbon tax rebate" cheques.

Oh fuck off

My mother does 35000km a year and she did it with a Nissan Leaf (250km range) until we moved far enough that she decided to get an i3 with the generator (180km electric + gas generator) so she can do it without having to charge the few times a year she'll come visit, 95% of the time she doesn't need gas at all and she only charges at home. Before getting the i3 she was renting a gas car once a year to visit our family just because of one stretch where she wasn't sure the charging station would work. The Canadian average yearly mileage is less than half of that, it's just excuses to not change to something new even if it's better.

Not even going to touch on how wrong you are about the carbon tax because others have already covered that.

Edit: Heat pumps work at temperature under -25 and you can use other types of electric heaters for the days that go under that, no need to use fuel.

The federal carbon tax doesn't go into a black hole its rebated back to taxpayers.

Atlantic Canada only got limited access to natural gas in the last fifteen years. Most homes are heated by electricity or fuel oil, both more expensive than NG. After the oil shocks of the 70s, governments incentivized switching to electricity. Over 60% of houses in NB are heated that way, mostly by baseboard heaters. Baseboards are roughly 100% efficient, while heat pumps are 2 to 3 times that.

Air to air heat pumps work down to about -20C, after that the heating coils will kick in. That's when heat pumps gets more expensive, on par with baseboards.

Base rwd Model 3 has a range of 430kms. With a 20% drop, you're still at 345kms in really cold weather. Even in Toronto, 75% of driving commutes are less than 25kms, and it's the worst case scenario.

One thing people like to ignore, average house sizes have doubled since the 1960s (1200sq ft to 2400sq ft) even as families became smaller than ever. Add in stupid fashions like 10ft ceilings, and heating costs are going to go nowhere but up.

It's not a black hole. It's nearly completely paid back to Canadians evenly such that most Canadians get more back.

What's also neat is that every single province could do exactly what you're suggesting. All the federal government mandated was a price on carbon, each province could implement whatever system they wanted.

Like everything these days, our worst problems are at the provincial levels, and people don't seem to understand or realize that.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/axe-the-tax-and-carbon-rebate-how-canada-households-affected-1.7046905

I know you had a lot of unbacked up claims in your comment, but I wanted to remind you that most people get money back from the carbon rebate then they paid in.