Premier Rachel Notley held a news conference Wednesday to go over what she felt were the Government's accomplishments this past year.

As expected, Notley claimed the upcoming carbon tax may not be all that bad when it comes to things like the products we buy, at least not right away.

"I think it will take a little while to trickle down and perhaps it won't trickle down at all," she says. "I think if you look at what the carbon prices will do to the price of gasoline relative to rate at which gasoline changes week over week, you'll see that it's just a fraction of that."

She says you don't see a variance is every other price when the price of gasoline goes up and down.

Notley says people look for the cheapest price for gas and they'll still do that and it may not just be a question of having a more fuel efficient vehicle, sometimes it comes down to taking a bus or walking.

The Premier says Albertans wanted her government to take concrete action on climate change and that's what they're doing.

"When we did the Climate Leadership Plan we did a number of town halls and we consulted with a number of Albertans before the Climate leadership Plan was even introduced and we heard from them that they wanted a government that was going to take action, that would allow us to make progress on a matter, that quite frankly worries a lot of people," Notley says. "The younger people are the more likely they are to be worried about it so I think this is a plan that has struck the right balance."

She says claims by the Wildrose opposition that hundreds of thousands of jobs cloud be lost because of the carbon tax were "perhaps a little torqued".

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