Don't fill up your tank on February 19!
Beyond Petroleum Day was initiated last year after the big BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Activist Jeff Birmingham, a former Albertan, is the driving force behind this worldwide one-year-event. You may have noticed that this day abbreviates to BP day, which is not coincidence! The day aims to boycott the oil and gas industry and make people think about renewable energy sources instead. The Facebook page is actually quite interesting, reporting on issues of the oil & gas industry, such as when an oil company gets fined, and alternatives to gas and oil.
I think it is great opportunity to have such a day, especially to have it thanks to the initiative of an ordinary person. Since it's new I doubt many people will participate. You know how many people still drive on car-free day and how many have an appliance switched on during Earth hour and how many shop on buy-nothing-day. More than one, SIGH! I wished that the oil companies would cooperate and close their gas stations for Beyond Petroleum day. They are not going to lose out because people will just fill up another day but such an action would probably make more people aware of this day to start with. Personally, I'm once more glad not to own a car so I don't even have to think about filling it up, or digging it out of the snow, or scratching ice of the windows, for that matter.
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