Boycott Autos not Gas

Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:32:23 -0400
From: johnkaren pearce <jk.pearce@ns.sympatico.ca>
Organization: LLLC/T2000
To: sustainable maritimes <sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca>
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  40 Lorne Ave.,
 Dartmouth, N.S. B2Y 3E7
Phone 469-3474 Fax 469-3637
>                                                     March 11, 2000
>To the Editor:
>
>There is an oft-heard call these days to boycott gasoline retailers in
>response to growing fuel prices.  We are told to gas up before and
after
>but not during the three-day "gas-out" boycott.  It is not clear what
>this will achieve since our shortages are due to our growing use of a
>finite and diminishing resource.  As the "Pogo" comic would put it, "We

>have seen the enemy and it is us".
>
>It would be more effective if we parked our car in the driveway for the

>weekend and didn't use it.  That would conserve our diminishing
>resource.  More important, it would convince us of our dependence on
and
>even addiction to the automobile and perhaps prompt some action .
>
>It's unlikely than many of us would have the will-power for three
>"car-less" days. But it would give us cause for some soul-searching
>about our personal lifestyle and our civic planning.  Car free Sundays
>are already common in Europe.  During the next decade we will be forced

>into a growing withdrawal from the auto habit. This fuel price jump is
a
>fortuitous warning of things to come.
>
>John Pearce, Transport 2000 Atlantic
>
>


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