If you missed it, Canada, along with the world's arch fuel guzzler, the U.S., declined to endorse the climate summit resolution to support the Kyoto Agreement on Global Warming. Our lame answer was that we deserved to pollute because we had all those forests soaking up pollutants. Big Business echoes the alarm that too much conservation and too much clean fuel technology is the slippery slope to lost jobs - not to mention profits. The western cement barons, who depend on developers to keep paving over farmland, warn that rising oil prices will make them return to coal to fire their high temperature kilns. So we are told to get our priorities straight.
Society seems out to lunch.
The highways are jammed with sport-utes and trucks gorging fuel because of weight and speed. Remember how his figures showed dramatic fuel consumption increase when speeds went up. We must demand the kind of action voter-friendly governments won't touch. Instead of lowering fuel prices - they should be raised. The government must go beyond carbon-taxing heavy cars, it should outlaw further sale of any private vehicle over one ton.