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Originally Posted by Sportstick
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"!
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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.