tonight's dinnerMmmm... yummy! I made corn chowder on sunday night because I wasn't feeling well and it hit the spot perfectly. I almost made tomato and mushroom soup...
Sorry dudes, but gas has been taxed at a much higher rate in other nations, ever since the last energy crisis in the early seventies, to curb consumption and the resulting effects on society.
Europe does it and Canada does it, and our resulting growth and consumption patterns for the past thirty years have been substantially different from the US.
I've known that the cost of energy would have go back up eventually, and have deliberately chosen over the years to drive small cars and structure my life in antiicipation of that (I didn't need a truck or an SUV.... why pay for it?) Not to mention I could spend the money elsewhere...
This will serve as the incentive I need to get my fellow shareholders in my older co-operative apartment building to invest in some new now-available energy conservation technologies (two button flush toilets, the photovoltaic array on the roof, finishing the building envelope tightening program)
I'll be out there on my bike with my "O cents-km" Tshirt. I'm afraid my atbreastude is "suck up and deal, you'll be better for it", as I set out to do some practical things to help my lower income co-owners find some solutions.
Shirley Hicks Toronto, Ontario
