other people's hypocrisy

ok, as promised, the second part of this post.

so, we have already determined that i am a hypocrite until i can figure out a way to fuel a car solely on happy thoughts.

i was already pretty on edge about the whole gas thing, obviously, when this came out. you might not feel like reading the whole thing...basically, a couple of weeks before the government released their 'green plan', environment minister john baird presented a report claiming that if the canadian gov't met the goals of the kyoto accord, canada would be plunged into a deep, horrible recession.

i don't claim to be any sort of smarty pants economist - i'm an effing drama major - but there was one part of this report that made me snarf my green tea when i heard mr. baird quoted on the cbc:

"The government's Kyoto impact study predicts that individual Canadians could see natural gas prices double and electricity prices rise by 50 per cent over five years, changing $90-a-month bills into $145-a-month bills. Gasoline prices would rise more than 60 per cent to $1.60 a litre before 2012."

wait wait wait, hold up. what about those endless features on the news the past few days about how gas prices are currently gouging people's pockets. the price has gone up from 77 cents to $1.10 a litre since january. meanwhile, gas is apparently around $1.30 in B.C.

the fact that baird tried to strike fear into the hearts of canadians, dangling this abominable price in front of us as if it was your dead mangled dog("do you want THIS to happen?") was just hilarious.

canada will be lucky if we're only at $1.60 by july 2012.

perhaps i sound like a raving lunatic, but i have ceased to have any faith in the government in terms of environmental issues. the shear short-sightedness of saying 'we can't afford to save our planet, the economy is too important' is like saying 'we need more tomato sauce, so we better kill all the tomato plants and make sure they don't grow back'...ok, that was a lame comparison, but i think it's sort of what i'm getting at. i must have a craving for spaghetti.

you can't have an economy if you have no workers because they have no proper air to breathe, nor any resources with which to make and sell things, etc... maybe i'm wrong, cuz i'm not an economist, but i believe sacrifices will have to made somewhere down the line. life is going to get a hell of a lot more expensive if we want to keep breathing air and suntanning without looking like a big pile of ash.

otherwise, i hope mr. baird's great grandchildren enjoy walking to school in their fashionable protective UV suits with built in breathing apparatuses. maybe they'll print cute little yellow duckies on them or something.

well that was a couple of fun uplifting posts.

mayhaps the next one will be about puppies.