Canadians Purchasing Environmentally-Friendly Cars?

I found this article quite interesting and important to what we were talking about in the Green Party presentation, we had on Thursday.

The Green Party brought up many important environmental issues and educated us very well on the issue of global warming. Also, a HUGE point was made by..(I think her name is Ariel) and that was that, "yes Canadians are saying that global warming is such a big problem, but are they doing anything to change that...?"

Well as reported by the Globe and Mail, the answer is NO. Clearly it's cool to say that you care about the environment, when really it's all talk.
The Globe and Mail conducted a survey on public issues and the number one issue was the environment. The conductors of the survey commented that environment being number one was not at all surprising. This has become number one because of the publicity on global warming and it also helps that Al Gore won the Nobel Prize.

Anyways, the survey showed that since the high rate of publicity on global warming has rose, people have come to assume that the purchasing rate on gas-guzzling vehicles such as SUV's, Trucks and Mini-Vans has gone down. Yet, stated by Stats Canada in August alone the rates grew by 5 percent!

This might have a little to do with the higher Canadian dollar and that Canadians are wanting to spend more money on nice vehicles. So, with the growing Canadian dollar, it is becoming much harder to persuade Canadian's to buy smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles.

So are Canadian's purchasing environmentally friendly cars? Well the answer is no. Yet, everyone supports such cars as the Hybrid and agrees they are good vehicles. But the reality is that fuel efficient vehicles are not yet the norm. Clearly, truth be told if you have the money... your not going to spend it on Hybrid, even if your intentions on the environment are good.