Remember that the champion of Carbon Tax is none other than the father of this new Conservative Reform Alliance Party (CRAP) Mr Preston Manning himself. He has recently even shocked Ezra Levant and his Propaganda Party News network when he passionately spoke out in favour of one. In Europe Petrol is a soft target for various governments both right and left wing to automatically tax this commodity in their budgets. The cost of gas in Europe should be no different than in North America. However, the taxation is staggering and whether they impose the carbon tax or not makes little difference to the consumers who are resigned to paying more at the pumps. Here in Canada and the USA there is normally an outcry if normal taxes are imposed as in the case of the HST in many provinces. So really in the end no one wants to pay more on Gas irrespective of the pros and cons. We were being subjected to unofficial taxes with a conspiracy by the Oil producers and Governments to artificially raise the prices of this commodity as at the end of the day they would benefit at the expense of the consumers. As a result a number of businesses that were impacted did collapse that affected manufacturing regions. What goes up has to come down, and hopefully there is no desire to inflict consumers with levies on Gas / Petrol with taxes such as the Carbon tax. Hope we continue to see cheap fuel at the pumps and once again enjoy tanking up with this commodity whether it comes from so called "ethical" sources or not.