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Tom Keats
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In article <jkYWj.5676$GK4.49@trndny01>,
Peter Cole <[email protected]> writes:
> Tom Keats wrote:
>
>> No-helmet fines should go toward putting a cyclists'
>> push-button traffic light @ Prince Edward St & 41st Ave.
>
> Or a repeal fund.
Gov't money-grabs are never repealed.
Now, my fellow British Columbians are soon to be
inflicted with a so-called "carbon tax" on our
fossil fuel purchases:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=ecea1487-507c-43ef-ab88-5a972898e0b7&k=38130
When we buy coal oil/kerosene and other non-burnt
petrochemicals such as for painting from the hardware
store, we already have to pay a recycling/disposal
premium on those, and that's all right by me.
But watch out -- we British Columbians are the guys who
originally trend-setted MHLs.
It's also not okay to smoke a cigarette near a building
entrance or in a bistro patio, but it /is/ okay to drive
a filthy diesel exhaust-spewing dump truck past it.
Even if it exceeds the posted civic speed limit. Although
those big wobbly clouds of diarrhea-brown diesel exhaust
seem to come mostly from engine-braking (which truck drivers
are politely asked not to do in the city.)
Thus is the People's Republic of British Columbia.
The situation is hopeless but not serious.
cheers,
Tom
--
"Mendacity!"
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca
Peter Cole <[email protected]> writes:
> Tom Keats wrote:
>
>> No-helmet fines should go toward putting a cyclists'
>> push-button traffic light @ Prince Edward St & 41st Ave.
>
> Or a repeal fund.
Gov't money-grabs are never repealed.
Now, my fellow British Columbians are soon to be
inflicted with a so-called "carbon tax" on our
fossil fuel purchases:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=ecea1487-507c-43ef-ab88-5a972898e0b7&k=38130
When we buy coal oil/kerosene and other non-burnt
petrochemicals such as for painting from the hardware
store, we already have to pay a recycling/disposal
premium on those, and that's all right by me.
But watch out -- we British Columbians are the guys who
originally trend-setted MHLs.
It's also not okay to smoke a cigarette near a building
entrance or in a bistro patio, but it /is/ okay to drive
a filthy diesel exhaust-spewing dump truck past it.
Even if it exceeds the posted civic speed limit. Although
those big wobbly clouds of diarrhea-brown diesel exhaust
seem to come mostly from engine-braking (which truck drivers
are politely asked not to do in the city.)
Thus is the People's Republic of British Columbia.
The situation is hopeless but not serious.
cheers,
Tom
--
"Mendacity!"
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca