Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02194
To: beam@corp.sgi.com, James Wilson jameswilson@globalserve.net
From: Justin jaf60@student.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 08:00:23 +1200
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: [Fwd: Ever thought about a no Beer Day?]
> It's time we did something about the price of gasoline! We are all sick
> and tired of high prices when there are literally millions of gallons in
> storage.
Bucking the trend perhaps, as far as I'm concerned, the higher the
price, the better.
We are all sick and tired of choking on disgusting fumes from entire
vehicles driven just to transport a single person per vehicle so that
they can maintain a sedentary lifestyle in the hopes of clogging up the
health system with entirely preventable heart failure, victims of
motorised crashes, unneccesary cancers, and all the other problems
steming from a culture wedded to its motor vehicles.
Tax the shit out of gas - double the price overnight. The social
benefits will be immense. A car per person is a luxary we don't need.
And what does all this have to do with BEAM? Er... two (very tenious)
things:
1) the BEAM list is probably not really a suitable place to drum up
support for unrelated market activism. We are not quite "all" sick and
tired of "high" prices for social (and biological) poisons.
2) I prefer the BEAM tendancy to (indirectly) choose better energy
sources.
(Ok, so that one's _really_ reaching... :-)
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