But high gas prices will help save the planet!

Chuckercanuck highlights the utter lack of logic exhibited by Canada's best-known lefty think tank:

What's strange about this gaggle of progressives howling about the price of gas is that they should be celebrating the gouge, not condemning it. The more expensive we make gas, the less people will consume. That's the whole idea behind the carbon tax - make fuel so expensive that people will modify their behaviour. By gouging us at the pumps, the corporations are merely being proactive in implementing their own personal greenhouse gas fighting initiative. Said another way: if consumers were to pay the "un-gouged" price of gas, we would purchase more, not less gas. And that, according to the Centre for Policy Alternatives, means the end of our species. At least, it did in December.

If I was worried about the destruction of the human species, I wouldn't complain about gas being too expensive.

As for opposition politicians...

Mark C.

Damian adds: the CCPA's problem isn't with high gas prices per se, but with the fact that someone out there might be (horrors!) making money from it.

Posted by markc at May 11, 2007 04:17 PM