• @SamuelRJankis@lemmy.world
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    26 months ago

    What happened:

    …based their high-profile analysis of the federal fuel charge — commonly known as the carbon tax — on calculations that included more than just the federal fuel charge.

    It turns out the PBO’s complex computer code had actually included the federal output-based pricing system — commonly known as industrial carbon pricing — when it wasn’t supposed to.

    The new numbers is not going to available for a while:

    As we’ve heard, Giroux doesn’t think the “economic” costs will be all that different once the PBO is done rerunning all its mathematical models in several months’ time.