Suzuki's tour bus

The Winnipeg Sun's Tom Brodbeck chides David Suzuki for using a polluting, diesel-powered bus for his cross-country global warming tour:

Political activist David Suzuki -- on a cross-country tour urging Canadians and politicians to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- may want to look in his own backyard before lecturing Canadians on how they're destroying the Earth.

With all the alternative-energy modes of transportation out there, Suzuki and his entourage are crossing Canada in a sprawling, "rock-star-style" diesel-burning tour bus, emitting more greenhouse gases during his 30-day tour than many of us do in a year.

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Suzuki could at least have found a biodiesel bus, which emits far less greenhouse gases than conventional diesel.

"We were hoping to have biodiesel," Curan explained by phone, as the Suzuki tour drove out of Winnipeg yesterday. "But we were told towards the beginning of the tour -- for this company that we're going through -- that it would void the warranty."

Void the warranty?

Void the warranty? I see.

Suzuki is the same guy who tells us if we're not car-pooling, switching to smaller, more efficient vehicles, using transit and other alternative modes of transportation, we're sticking it to our grandchildren. We're killing the Earth.

You want to know how many people are travelling with Mr. Kyoto in this oversized carbon burner? Seven. Sometimes eight -- including the bus driver.

Eight people in a vehicle that could probably hold 30.

To be fair, Suzuki's foundation is buying "carbon credits" to offset the greenhouse gases emitted on his tour. But he couldn't he have reached many of his stops by train?

Damian P.

Posted by damian at February 25, 2007 11:25 AM