True but only the elite own boatsMany countries in Europe such as Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and even oil-producing Norway have been paying $2/liter for a while - and life there carries on nicely. If you want really cheap gas, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela come to mind.
At 17 gph that ain’t getting me very farAs someone mentioned earlier, part of the $2/liter is carbon tax but you'll be getting a carbon tax rebate on your income taxes:
For 2021, British Columbia provides a rebate of $174 for an individual or first adult in a couple, $174 for a spouse/common-law partner, and $51 per child.
So put that 87 liters in your boat and go fishing!
tuna doesn’t count hahaha tuna is lifeless solo trips for sure, otherwise business as usual. friends pay the fuel. charters up by 200.00 for offshore days.
tuna, well... its tuna...
tuna doesn’t count hahaha tuna is life
Absolutely, and this shortage was forecast at least 20 years ago! Governments talked it to death. Moms, Dads and teachers all programmed kids that university was the only acceptable route to a career with occupational prestige. Manual Labour was thought by the millennials to be the President of Mexico.There is a powerful inflationary force afoot right across the G7: demographics. Baby boomers are leaving the workforce faster than post millennials are entering it. The slight surplus of workers that we've had in Canada for the past 40 years is a thing of the past, unless immigration is greatly stepped up.
This general shortage of workers across the entire economy is a baked in upward pressure on wages and salaries, and therefore on all the goods and services produced in this and all the other developed countries.
McDonald's offering 17.50/hr plus benefits package is a sign of the times that won't go away anytime soon. They're already experimenting with robot operated deep fryers because of so much pressure on supply and price of workers. The rock star incomes for oil industry workers are gone, the new boom is in the trades where there has been a structural shortage of trained skilled workers for a decade already. Signing bonuses for carpenters and diesel mechanics is already a thing.
Equally ironic is that one of the key ways to free up people not currently participating in the workforce is cheap childcare, but to build the physical facilities needed in BC will take even more of the skilled trades that we don't have. (Nonetheless we need to do it anyway - if we are serious about taking a bite out of child poverty).Absolutely, and this shortage was forecast at least 20 years ago! Governments talked it to death. Moms, Dads and teachers all programmed kids that university was the only acceptable route to a career with occupational prestige. Manual Labour was thought by the millennials to be the President of Mexico.
It takes at least 4 years to get through formal trades training ( - if you get a seat. But then the B.C. completion rate in 2019 was only 46%) and another four years to develop decent skills. So I get a big laugh when white collar weiners like the Conservative Leader say "If elected, we will solve the housing crisis by building a million homes." Look around Sherlock - with exactly whom?
This thread was destined for failure lolHeading way off topic here guys.
Doesn’t have to be that wayThis thread was destined for failure lol
Equally ironic is that one of the key ways to free up people not currently participating in the workforce is cheap childcare, but to build the physical facilities needed in BC will take even more of the skilled trades that we don't have. (Nonetheless we need to do it anyway - if we are serious about taking a bite out of child poverty).
of course not, it was more of a joke, but that's hard to do onlineDoesn’t have to be that way
I didn't say you were totally wrong....of course not, it was more of a joke, but that's hard to do online
Would love to see that here, I'd like to think we have at least started on the path. Much inefficiency in our economy when the state pays to educate and train people only for them to end up leaving the workforce because they can't afford daycare.Europe has full time free pre K, rather then child care
It's okay - relevant and interesting points as to why gas will soon be $2/liter. Most here have addressed the initial question of "how?" and have now transitioned to the more critical question "why?"Heading way off topic here guys.