Clean Fuel Regulations impose higher costs on low-income households: PBO

By Karunjit Singh (May 18, 2023, 4:22 PM EDT) -- Canada’s Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR) have had a broadly regressive effect on households relative to their disposable income, according to a report by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) released on May 18. The analysis by the PBO titled “A Distributional Analysis of the Clean Fuel Regulations” indicates that lower-income households bear a larger burden of the regulations compared to higher income households when it comes to the cost of complying with the CFR....