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Peter Martin
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Posted: 22 May 2026 at 6:28pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Evan, in Nova Scotia we have anti-environmenalist Tim Houston as premier and he has implemented an additional fee on EVs and hybrids to supposedly compensate for lost revenue in fuel tax revenue.

Everywhere else sensible in the world has incentives to use EVs. Here they have disincentives!

The levy is 500 bucks for EVs and 250 bucks for hybrids every two years. Given the premium cost for these vehicles, the provincial government takes in additional tax revenue when they are bought... and the loss in fuel tax revenue is nowhere near these numbers. We've contacted our MLA Tim Halman (who is also Environment Minister for NS) to ask how he decided on the numbers and he literally won't say. He was happy to lie and say Ontario and Quebec do the same (they don't). 


Edited by Peter Martin on 22 May 2026 at 6:32pm
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Posted: 22 May 2026 at 11:41pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
So I’ll be honest with you - I don’t mind paying taxes if it means infrastructure is maintained. $500/2 years is still going to represent a significant savings against how much I’d be paying for gas (pretty sure the last time I crunched the numbers, it was around $15 to fully charge my car). That said, it’d be nice if these morons didn’t just make shit up for the sake of making shit up.
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Peter Martin
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Posted: 23 May 2026 at 12:04am | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Yes, but I drive a regular hybrid. When I fill my car, it costs the same as a regular car -- I just fill it a bit less. The hybrid engine does not plug in,  and harvests energy only from braking.

The average a motorist drives in NS per year is 16k km.Let's say that takes 1300 litres of gasoline. A hybrid might save 320 litres of gasoline for this.

The fuel tax is 15c per litre. Over the year this is a saving of 48 bucks. But the NS goverment wants to charge $125 per year. And this ignores the fact that you pay a lot more in HST for the car in the first place than the regular car. 

And Halman is minster in charge of climate change. It seems like he is interpreting his role as working FOR climate change rather than against.


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John Cole
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Posted: 23 May 2026 at 12:41am | IP Logged | 4 post reply
I Gas up every two or three weeks I drive so little.
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