The Oil Drum

You could take every vehicle off the road in Canada, every car, every truck, every bus, every motorcycle, as well as throw in lawnmowers and barbecues tomorrow morning all the way through 2012 and that still would be nowhere near enough to achieve that target.

Well, here in NS, transportation is up around 28% of GG emissions, so I call shenanigans on the above quote, since a 28% cut would be pretty damn close to the 35% needed.

But dammit, no one is suggesting such a ridiculous solution. Low-hanging fruit, people! Replace coal burning power plants with wind/solar/conservation/hydro-tidal. Make solo car commuting harder to do and non-car commuting easier. Stop digging up large sections of Northern Alberta and burning all our NG to do it. Once again, the "it can't be done" crowd is in the way of those who would at least like to try.

And Billions (oooh, scary!) of dollars isn't really that much...Alberta ran a 9 Billion dollar surplus this year alone. The money is out there.

I'll throw in a link from our local "indie" paper, which is an article containing some pretty basic ideas that we already know how to do :
http://www.thecoast.ca/1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2007-06-21&-to...

Oh, and the link to the article I quoted in the roundup is broken....