TAX THIS!

Carole Taylor may or may not add a carbon tax at our gas pumps in her upcoming budget, but this is a very bad idea for at least two reasons.

First, we are already overwhelmed by the high cost of fuel. One more tax will cause apoplexy or maybe a needed revolt.

Second, if the manufacturers and dealers insist on continuing to put SUVs on the road, how will a tax at the pump change anything? You think SUV owners will care about paying a bit more for their polluting monstrosities?

I live but a block away from Our Lady of Perpetual SUVs, a lovely parochial school that is visited 4 times a day by cavalcades of Exploders and other hulking tanks, each driven by a tiny lady, each transporting a tiny child.

A friend has recently ditched his late model station wagon for a Smart Car.

We need more smart cars, more smart people, more smart legislators.