Avoiding a Carbon Tax...

At $30 per tonne, 1,000 kWH of electricity from a coal-fired power station will cost about $30 more. That is 3 cents per kiloWatt-Hour.
A family home electric hot water heater may use about 4,000 kWH of electricity a year. A carbon tax at $30 per tonne will add $120 to the cost of this electricity - if it comes from a coal-fired power station.

Want to avoid paying this carbon tax?

1. A heat pump hot water system uses about one-third the electricity of an electric hot water system. This will cut the annual tax bill to $40,

and

2. Use electricity from a gas-fired power station. These produce only 40 percent of the carbon dioxide of a coal-fired power station. ($12 carbon tax per 1,000 kWH of electricity or 1.2 cents per kiloWatt-Hour.) This will cut the carbon tax to $16 per year.

A personal choice: Carbon tax = $120 per year, or Carbon tax = $16 per year.

If there was no carbon tax, would anyone try to avoid it?

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