Two independent MHA’s are proposing a specific use for a portion of the province’s carbon tax.

That tax, worked out as part of an agreement between Ottawa and Newfoundland and Labrador on climate change, began as a 5-cent surcharge but is now close to nine cents.

The member for Humber-Bay of Islands, Eddie Joyce, says the carbon tax goes directly into general revenue, and that very little of it is actually used for climate change.

The P.U.B. has imposed a special 5-cent tax on gasoline following a request from North Atlantic Refining, after it put the refinery into warm idle and began importing fuel.

Joyce and fellow Independent MHA Paul Lane say government should use 5-cents from the carbon tax for Come By Chance, thereby sparing customers the 5-cents designated for the refinery.

Joyce says that’s what the carbon tax was designed for, but instead it’s being used for general government programs and services.