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Updated: November 17, 2009 12:12 PM
Costs of truck parade greater than benefits
Re: Christmas Truck Light-Up Parade
This brightly lit parade of about 80 trucks, organized by the Island Equipment Owners’ Association, will once again take place in early December.
It travels from James Bay, through Oak Bay and on to the Langford area. According to the president of the association, trucks picked up about 1,700 pounds of items for local food banks last year. And the parade will once again provide some advertising for the need for food. All that is good work, but let’s think again.
Think of how the carbon emissions resulting from the parade will offset the benefit of energy saving light bulbs purchased in the Greater Victoria area. The food bank work could easily by done by a single vehicle. One has to question the rest.
This year the World Climate Change conference takes place in Copenhagen, also in December, with the object of reducing carbon emissions in the atmosphere of this sacred planet of ours. Surely the truckers can think of something better than this parade.
Tom Lane
Oak Bay
