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Shiftheads - Electric Car Owners Are Cashing Alberta's Gas Cheque
Instead of cutting the gas tax, Alberta sent residents a flat hundred dollar cheque, and the math broke almost immediately. Journalist Rob Breakenridge explains why electric vehicle owners, who pay nothing at the pumps, are getting the exact same payout as everyone filling up every week, and why that detail is fuelling most of the backlash. The bigger question of who funds road repairs as gas vehicles disappear is only getting louder from here.
The conversation moves to social media age bans and the identification problem nobody's solved: if a platform has to verify age, someone has to hand…
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