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Originally Posted by mykalberta
I just wish Harper would transcend his current party's base and announce an immediate 3.5 Billion Environment funding plan with 3 centres of excellence - Edmonton for power fuels, Winnipeg for clean agricultre fuels, and Waterloo for efficient combustion engines and smog. With laws to reduce coal/natural gas emmisions by 20% in 10 years, and have a 10 year plan to get every car in Canada to E85 or higher standards or face serious taxes on basic carbon based fuels.
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The thing is, the world has to start focusing on zero/low emission power sources, not fuels who's main source still comes out of the ground or a farm. There should be a 10-20 year plan to get every car to become completely free of natural fuels, not just some phased reduction that really doesn't solve the main issue. The plan the Conservatives put forth was an absolute and utter joke.....it came nowhere close to actually taking the bull by the horns and taking charge of the matter.
People have been p*ssy-footing around this issue for so many years now, its ridiculous. We put a frickin' man on the moon in a decade, why the hell can't we actually figure out a way to drive a car without it dumping tons of toxic waste into our systems every year? It can be done (and has been done in the instances of some electric cars that were mysteriously shut down), we just actually have to have the real will to do it.