RE: [Paddlewise] Fw: gas boycott

--- "Whyte, David" <DHW_at_Mail.amsa.gov.au> wrote:
> 	D & A mille wrote 
> > > >>>It worked in April of 1999 and April of 2000 - Let's see if it
> will
> > work  Now that gas prices are rising every weekend by .20 to .30
> > a   gallon.Last year on April 30,1999, a gas out was staged across
> Canada
> > > >>    >and the U.S. to bring the price of gas down, and it
> worked. It's
> > time
> > 
> > 
> 	Maybe I look at it differently but shouldn't we be encouraging Gas
> (or Petrol ) prices to go up rather than down. This way people would
> be more
> inclined to walk, ride a bicycle, or paddle a kayak instead of
> driving a car
> 
> 	David
> 	Who rides a push bike to work  
> 

Thank you David, I couldn't agree more.  We pay unrealistically low gas
prices, and so many drive around in huge, gas guzzling SUVs to go
grocery shopping (I see this every day, as most of my neighbors drive
these environmental nightmares).  Just crazy.  The *actual* price we
(and the rest of the world) pay for our gas being so cheap is
staggering.  The natural world we as paddlers love so much suffers
greatly every time we think of our money before we consider our planet.

Melissa 


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