Premier David Eby’s credibility is likely going to drop a lot further than the price of gas did overnight.

A night full of argument in the legislature Monday was expected to end with passage of a bill that follows the federal lead in eliminating the provincial version of the carbon tax on consumers, once considered a world-saving way to cut emissions.

It was introduced at the last possible moment and slammed through the legislature in one day to avoid a mandated increase in the tax scheduled for today.

It will be undeniably popular. It is expected to cut the pump price of gasoline by about 17 cents a litre. (That’s assuming oil companies don’t find some bogus excuse — a storm in the Gulf of Mexico, a shift change at a refinery — to hike their take of the price.)

There’s no doubt B.C. would have difficulty going it alone with a carbon tax, even though Eby promised a year ago he would do just that if need be.

But it’s a strikingly crass move. He’s shifted from helping to save the planet to saving his own skin. He had a lot of help from past self-serving B.C. Liberal and NDP governments along the way.

You could fill a library with quotes from Eby and his cabinet over the last few years extolling the virtues of the carbon tax —........

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