Comment 89162

By ViennaCafe (registered) | Posted May 29, 2013 at 22:51:56

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Waste? Really?

It costs the province and municipalities close to $1b a year just for road maintenance. And have you noticed how good the roads are? It costs all of us, $6b a year for congestion, not to mention the waste of fuel, and that is projected to rise to $15b. Road traffic represents about a third of Ontario's GHG emissions. And the fellow who mentioned cheap energy making our society so great failed to note the obesity, with its attendant costs, and the degradation of our environment with its attendant costs. Costs so great we can hand them off to our grandchildren to deal with. It will be their problem. Talk about a freakin' deficit. And what did we do, in the end, with that great gift of abundant, cheap energy? We squandered it driving to work, to get groceries, and cruising on main street. A scientist once said that with all the things that can be done with fossil fuels the stupidest thing is to burn then and so we did.

Ontarians want cheap, abundant energy and they don't want to know where it comes from or how they get it. They want to smoke, get fat, and eat shit but they also want their health care but don't want to pay the taxes to support it. We want our water cheap, clean, and on demand but we don't want to know how we get it, where it comes from, or pay the cost of ensuring its delivery.

We are an immature, selfish, and stupid society that faces multiple crises we won't even acknowledge never mind address.

There are too many children and not enough adults.

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