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      02-28-2015, 08:13 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Sportstick View Post
The N2 charge is a total rip, but the "air tax" is actually a tax on air conditioning for so-equipped vehicles. I know, I couldn't believe it either, but my brother-in-law in Ontario explained it to me. They tend to speak in abbreviations over there....hamburgers are hamburgs, avenue is pronounced as "ave", no one I met there can say "afternoon"....it's "this aft".....so not a surprise the sticker is so cryptic as to leave off "conditioning"!
One or two people who speak the way you describe does not an entire people make. I'm from Ontario and have never, ever heard people speak that way vis-a-vis abbreviations. We're like you, we have geographical and individual variation.
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