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   XPost: misc.taxes, alt.politics.greens, edm.general   
   XPost: winnipeg.general, alt.religion.druid   
   From: sharx35@telus.net   
      
   On 2024-03-21 3:14 p.m., David Dalton wrote:   
   > (Canada)   
   >   
   > Instead of the federal government giving back much of the Carbon   
   > Tax in rebates, they should direct the money to improving public   
   > transit nationally, including in rural areas.   
   >   
   > For example, in recent years there has been a loss of Greyhound   
   > in Western Canada, and that contributes to the ongoing crisis   
   > of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, since   
   > many of them resort to hitchhiking.   
   >   
   > On a local (Newfoundland) basis, several years ago there was   
   > a loss of Fleetline bus, which used to operate on the coastal   
   > Conception Bay Highway between St. John's and Conception   
   > Bay North, and which was a valuable service fo students   
   > travelling home for the weekend and for seniors and others   
   > going into the city for medical appointments or shopping.   
   >   
   > But of course there could also be an improvement in public   
   > transit in urban (including small cities) and suburban areas.   
   >   
   > And indeed, the planned transition to electric cars   
   > is not practical; instead (or as well) there must be a   
   > rapid evolution of private cars to public transit, probably   
   > including shared/communal cars in less dense areas.   
   >   
   > And I think the NDP and Green Party would support the   
   > LIberals in such an initiative, maybe even to the extent of   
   > forming a coalition before the next election.   
   >   
   Hell will freeze over before *I* "evolve" to public transit. It's   
   inconvenient, slow, not safe and takes a lot longer to get anywhere.    
   Time for you eco-nuts to wake up and stop being so naive. The sky is NOT   
   falling. Climates have always been changing.  The best PRACTICAL way to   
   deal with so-called apocalyptic climate change is to reduce population   
   growth and to ADAPT, repeat ADAPT, and not to beggar the economies of   
   western nations. ANd look carefully at the lifestyles of your   
   hypocritical leaders, e.g. Trudeau, AL Gore, and the king of hypocrites,   
   David Suzuki.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)