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Ours is a car culture, and will be until BP has sucked the last litre of oil out of the earth and poured it directly onto a shorebird for old time's sake. Bike to Work Week might pack the trails for a few days and convert some participants into full-time commuter cyclists, but for others it's like the Winter Olympics or the World Cup, where we all turn into diehard biathlon/soccer fans for a fortnight, then forget them for another four years.
For all our lip service to global warming, we would rather see the ice caps melt and turn Esquimalt into Atlantis before crowbarring our ever-expanding butts out from behind the wheel.
This tepid approach to environmental change is led by the provincial government, whose HST will add seven per cent to the cost of a bicycle July 1, the same day the tax on luxury vehicles drops.
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