September 22 - World CarFree Day

[cfsmtb]

So it's CarFree Day today. Ride your bike? Take PT? Limited your car use? Good work, keep it up. Whether it's intentional due to petrol prices, or not..see further links below. Also, regarding that fecking annoying CAPS-LOCK 'No Petrol Day' email keeps being spammed around, it's all ****, read about it on Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp

World CarFree Day
http://www.worldcarfree.net/wcfd/

World Car-Free Days Collaborative
http://www.ecoplan.org/carfreeday/

World Carfree Day — 22 September
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/09/world_carfree_d.php

 

[GPLama]

"cfsmtb" wrote in message ...
>
> So it's CarFree Day today. Ride your bike? Take PT? Limited your car
> use?

Rode my bike... slowly for once.. I'm driving to DISC tonight to watch the
track racing..

<whinge>
I'd rather see people just ride their bikes and enjoy it rather than fight
fight struggle struggle power to the pedal people argue argue petrol car vs
cyclist....mhhheeeaaaaahhhhhh...
</whinge>


cheers,
GPL
:lets go ride bikes!:

 

[Bleve]

cfsmtb wrote:
> So it's CarFree Day today. Ride your bike?


yep.

 

[cfsmtb]

774 ABC have been chattering away about the 'petrol free' thing all this arvo. Why oh why couldn't they do some simple research on google and get to the truth of the spam email via Snopes? They've *actually* sent out a reporter to do vox pops on Melbourne's motorists. Hey, never let bullsh*t get in the way of a good story, ahem, spin.

Before 6pm apparently they're going to ask if Melbournites are buying 'more bicycles' to beat the price hike.

Got a POV?

http://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/contact.htm
Phone:
(03) 9626 1771 (774 enquiries)

1300 222 774 (talkback)*

SMS: 19 774 774**

 

[cfsmtb]

Update: James from Bike Now is currently being interviewed on 774 ABC about more cyclists on Melbourne roads due to the petrol hike.

And another thing, the ABC reporter suggested a "On Yer Bike Johnny" campaign to get our Great Lord and Liberal Master to support cycling.

I'll strongly support that too.

But for COMPLETELY different reasons, other than commuting ....

 

[Marty]

cfsmtb wrote:
> Update: James from Bike Now is currently being interviewed on 774 ABC
> about more cyclists on Melbourne roads due to the petrol hike.
>
> And another thing, the ABC reporter suggested a "On Yer Bike Johnny"
> campaign to get our Great Lord and Liberal Master to support cycling.
>
> I'll strongly support that too.
>
> But for COMPLETELY different reasons, other than commuting ....
>
>

At the servo station in Woolworths in Bunbury I saw two people filling
up jerry cans as well as their cars. It's a long weekend in Western
Australia and prices normally go up on Fridays, especially before a long
weekend. The queues where much longer than normal too.

Marty

 

[Resound]

>
> At the servo station in Woolworths in Bunbury I saw two people filling up
> jerry cans as well as their cars. It's a long weekend in Western Australia
> and prices normally go up on Fridays, especially before a long weekend.
> The queues where much longer than normal too.
>
> Marty

Well Hurricane Rita is thumping towards the Texan coast and has already shut
down the oil refineries in the Gulf of Mexica. Apparently we should expect
petrol prices to bump up towards $1.60/litre.

 

[Stuart Lamble]

On 2005-09-22, Resound <sacredchao@> wrote:
> Well Hurricane Rita is thumping towards the Texan coast and has already shut
> down the oil refineries in the Gulf of Mexica. Apparently we should expect
> petrol prices to bump up towards $1.60/litre.

Doesn't faze me in the slightest. My car's tank is full, and I don't see
any need to buy fuel for at least a couple of weeks. Possibly even more,
depending on various matters.

The more the message is hammered home to the general population that
this situation (cheap fuel) can't last, the better off we'll be in the
long term.

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[Resound]

"Stuart Lamble" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 2005-09-22, Resound <sacredchao@> wrote:
>> Well Hurricane Rita is thumping towards the Texan coast and has already
>> shut
>> down the oil refineries in the Gulf of Mexica. Apparently we should
>> expect
>> petrol prices to bump up towards $1.60/litre.
>
> Doesn't faze me in the slightest. My car's tank is full, and I don't see
> any need to buy fuel for at least a couple of weeks. Possibly even more,
> depending on various matters.
>
> The more the message is hammered home to the general population that
> this situation (cheap fuel) can't last, the better off we'll be in the
> long term.
>
Oh, I wasn't actually complaining about it. *grin* In fact, there was a hint
of schadenfreude there, which is childish but there you are.