Re: 鈥淭urn off the gas pumps and see what happens,鈥� comment, Dec. 15.
I heartily support Bill Whitelaw鈥檚 proposal, but not for his reasons. As a CEO in an oil-and-gas-related business, he complains that the Canadian public does not sufficiently appreciate his value to sa国际传媒鈥檚 economy. He plans to shock us into the correct attitude by making us go gas-free for a day on July 1, 2019.
He does not mention climate change or the problem of his industry鈥檚 carbon emissions, either directly, or from the use of their products. It is hard to believe that he is not even aware of this.
He must find Sunday鈥檚 international agreement from Poland hard to understand. Perhaps he feels threatened by recent news of the Salt Spring Island Christmas parade of electric vehicles.
But yes! Let鈥檚 have a 鈥済as-free鈥� day. If it is brought to us by the oil-and-gas industry, as Whitelaw proposes, then so much the better. Any protests will go to them, rather than to Andrew Weaver, David Suzuki or the many other environmentalists who might have proposed it. July 1, 2019, will be a Monday. I look forward to it.
Whitelaw has perhaps not noticed that the world is planning more than a gas-free day. A gas-free week, month, year, in fact a gas-free eternity are on many people鈥檚 minds.
Jim Gower
Sidney
