MY local tim hortons still uses incadesecnt light bulbs

[sears_sucks]

Because theirs are often packed... Most other ones have a WAY smaller peak time. Make sense?

Maybe if people stopped ordering chili/sandwich combos at the drivethru instead of just a coffee or donut, there wouldn't be so much idling. I digress, off-topic. CFL's are the future.

[Azxster]

Land border crossing is worst than drive through

[IronMac]

For those who believe in fiddling around with other people's environmental controls, don't. How would you like it if some "vigilante" were to come in and fool around with your temp settings?

If you don't like what a business is doing, then, tell them or take your business elsewhere.

[KorruptioN]

Did you ask them if they were using Venti-sized lightbulbs?

edit: They're not required to change over...

[st7860]

Lightbulbs aside, do you notice how every tim hortons you go into has the a/c cranked to at least 20 C cooler than it should be? You shouldn't have to plan on bringing a sweater every time you go there in the summer.

I make it a practice to find the thermostat in every timmies and crank the a/c to a much lower setting (if the controls are accessible). This is such a blatant waste of energy for such a large company...

I do this too at some restaurants, but some of them have boxes over the thermostat, lol

[gordholio]

Tim Hortons biggest problem isn't the lightbulbs.

You can drive by my local Timmies (actually there are four of them) and 16 hours out of every day there are at least a copuple cars sitting there idling as they wait there way through the drivethrough. Talk about air pollution, when you think of all these drivethrough windows the added pollution must5 be immense.

It sounds like a math question out of highschool:

IF there are x amount of cars idling for 16 hours a day and each car realeses X amount of . . . . . .

If I'm stuck in one spot for more than a few seconds in a drive thru, I turn the ignition off and restart when the line gets moving.

[beerbaron105]

I would ban all drive thrus. A lot of the time it would be quicker to walk in than be the 15th person in line in a car. The amount of idling at fast food places, banks, dry cleaners across the country must be tremendous.

Ah hell, just raise the gas taxes to $1/L. Average price will be $1.,75 and that will encourage more people to park their cars (especially the escalades)

sounds like you take the bus, lets hope you never become premier

[brunes]

sounds like you take the bus, lets hope you never become premier

It is not that bad an idea IMO.

- Add $1.00 / L surcharge to gas

- Add a gas tax rebate for lower middle-class families ( say household income less than $50K ) whereby you can get 100% of the tax back up to a maximum $1000.

This would allow 84L of month of tax free gas for most people. If you use more than that then you have to pay, because you are over-consuming.

Doing this would encourage more greatly people to buy fuel-efficient vehicles. The additional revenue could be used to fix up the deteriorating roads.

[Chief]

It is not that bad an idea IMO.

- Add $1.00 / L surcharge to gas

- Add a gas tax rebate for lower middle-class families ( say household income less than $50K ) whereby you can get 100% of the tax back up to a maximum $1000.

This would allow 84L of month of tax free gas for most people. If you use more than that then you have to pay, because you are over-consuming.

Doing this would encourage more greatly people to buy fuel-efficient vehicles. The additional revenue could be used to fix up the deteriorating roads.

Just because one uses more than your arbitrary threshold of gas for a month, it does not make them an over-consumer. People commute varying distances to work, to school, etc. Owning a car is expensive enough in this country, and is a necessity for many people. And even if it isn't a necessity, people should be able to afford to drive.

[st7860]

It is not that bad an idea IMO.

- Add $1.00 / L surcharge to gas

- Add a gas tax rebate for lower middle-class families ( say household income less than $50K ) whereby you can get 100% of the tax back up to a maximum $1000.

This would allow 84L of month of tax free gas for most people. If you use more than that then you have to pay, because you are over-consuming.

Doing this would encourage more greatly people to buy fuel-efficient vehicles. The additional revenue could be used to fix up the deteriorating roads.

exactly. a car is not a necessity. if someone chooses to live in a suburb far from their employment, that is not the problem of society to provide them with subsidised gasoline.

[DaVibe]

I would ban all drive thrus. A lot of the time it would be quicker to walk in than be the 15th person in line in a car. The amount of idling at fast food places, banks, dry cleaners across the country must be tremendous.

Ah hell, just raise the gas taxes to $1/L. Average price will be $1.,75 and that will encourage more people to park their cars (especially the escalades)

I use drive-thrus all the time but you know what, for the reason of idiling, I'd be willing to give it all up. They SHOULD ban all drive-thrus.

[twotterdhc6]

They SHOULD ban drive-thrus, but there is no way in hell the lobby groups will allow that to pass

[jason9945]

exactly. a car is not a necessity. if someone chooses to live in a suburb far from their employment, that is not the problem of society to provide them with subsidised gasoline.

And what about the rest of this HUGE countries population that isnt in a Suburb or City..........