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It will soon be more expensive to be born, drive, buy a home, smoke and die in Alberta, as the province targets pocketbooks to deal with a ballooning deficit.

And if you need a drink to cope with new fees, liquor taxes also ramp up on Friday.

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The province resisted a sales tax in Thursday’s budget, but is raising user fees to “ensure those who use public services are defraying the true costs of those services,” according to the government’s strategic plan.

On Friday just past midnight, gasoline and diesel will increase by four cents per litre, bringing the provincial fuel tax to 13 cents per litre — still the lowest among the provinces. Propane will also rise by 2.9 cents per litre, bringing the total tax to 9.4 cents.

“We’ll just have to live with it,” said contractor Rob Lamb as he fuelled up his work truck at a gas station in University Heights on Thursday afternoon. “You never see the price go down when the cost of oil goes down, but it always goes up.”