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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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