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Re: Carbon Tax --> public transit

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On 21 Mar 2024 at 21:31:09 GMT, Sharx335 wrote:

> 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.

In several European countries (and a few others) it's nothing of the sort. So
decent public transport *can* be done.

> 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.

Partly right, for the wrong reasons (IMVHO).

-- 
Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK

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