It's easy enough for those of you in urban areas to find ways to reduce the use of petroleum fuel, but it is much harder for those of us who live in rural areas to do so. And, I think, you do want people to live in rural areas as that is still where most of your food is grown. There are not yet hybrid tractors (though John Deere, among others, does seem to working on it). So you can expect the increase in petroleum price to affect you - on the table - even if you reduce your personal transportation bill.
It's easy enough for those of you in urban areas to find ways to reduce the use of petroleum fuel, but it is much harder for those of us who live in rural areas to do so. And, I think, you do want people to live in rural areas as that is still where most of your food is grown. There are not yet hybrid tractors (though John Deere, among others, does seem to working on it). So you can expect the increase in petroleum price to affect you - on the table - even if you reduce your personal transportation bill.
Prince Edward Island potato farmers use lots of chemicals on their fields. Reports of river fish kills are a regular feature of the news on PEI.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2012/07/06/pei-trout-river-fish-kill-584.html