Should gas pumps have climate change warning labels?

[Tripper11]

Imagine every time you went to the gas station, you'd see a warning sticker on the pump, just like the ones on cigarette packs. Only instead of blackened lungs, there's a picture of an endangered animal or a sick child. The activist group Our Horizon is pushing to get stickers like that on gas pumps across Canada.

Their campaign has had some success. West Vancouver, the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities, and Moncton, have all voted to support the campaign. Guelph, Ontario will vote on it this week.

But there's some resistance to the campaign. Alex Scholten, president of the Canadian Convenience Stores Association, thinks the plan is just another regulatory burden for retailers. We brought him in to debate Our Horizon's executive director Rob Shirkey.

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[SickOfTheOnePct]

1. No

Dumb idea, IMO.

[yeoman6987]

6. The placement is especially dumb

I would not notice it on the pump. I lift the pump and put the nozzle in the tank and my eyes go to the money and gallons that are put in the car. When I hear the click I grab the pump and put it in the cradle. I personally would never see it.

[greytdemocrat]

11. You got it. nt

[hobbit709]

2. Will work about as well as cigarette warning labels do.

[Gregorian]

3. Yes. Worse than nicotine, people should bet a message each time they pump it.

One of the biggest parts of the climate change problem is just plain ignorance and apathy.

I don't imagine it will change people from frivolous use of fuel.

[MineralMan]

4. Not a bad idea, but it will not stop people from

filling up their vehicles. Until we have affordable, always available alternatives for transportation, people will drive their vehicles. So, I'm not sure the signs will have the desired impact

[SickOfTheOnePct]

8. Exactly

It's not like people are buying gas just because they enjoy spending the money week after week.

I live in the DC metro area, and I could take the metro to work rather than drive, but it's not worth it to me. While available and affordable, it's too inconvenient. A 21 mile commute that takes me 35 minutes (unless there is an accident on the road, which is rare on the road I drive) or a 20 minute bus ride to the metro station, followed by a 30 minute bus ride to another metro station, followed by a 15 minute wait for the train, followed by a 10 minute metro ride, followed by a 10 minute bus ride to my building.

35 minutes or an hour and 25 minutes, each way? That's more than an hour and a half lost each day, if I make every connection.

No thanks.

[hobbit709]

9. My last real job would have been 2 1/2 hours each way travel time

on top of a 12 hour shift. Or 45+ minutes to work and 15 home at 6 AM. That's not even counting the half mile walk at each end with the diabetic neuropathy in my legs.

I would have gladly taken the bus but the mass transit here in Austin sucks big time.

[NaturalHigh]

5. Yeah, because that always stops me from buying cigarettes.

[yeoman6987]

7. Oh another thing,

Did these planners consider New Jersey and Oregon who don't pump their own gas? No wonder we are losing to global warming. The ones trying to sell it are big failures in the ideas department.

[romanic]

10. No.

Because then you'd have to put stickers on other things too, like cars, airplane tickets, 95% of items sold in a grocery store, mail envelopes and on and on and on and on. Get what I'm saying?