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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELLIE!!

Not that she'll ever read it, but it's

sixth_light's little sister's birthday today, so, yay! :)

Also, it's April Fool's Day. Um, I can;t think of anything clever, so I won't say anything. (Dave, if you try that trick again I will GUT YOU. ;) No, not really.)

Also, in the paper today thre's one of those, you know, little interview things with half a dozen people asking them how they feel about the petrol tax hike. You know what frustrates me? One of the guys in the article said that it was unfair because "Using a car is the Kiwi way of life, it's just what we're used to." And you know what else? The only person who said she's try to use the bus more was the one person who needed a car: the mother who used her car to take her daughter to kindergarten in the mornings.

*annoyed* Now, I don't drive, so I appreciate that the hike isn't going to affect me much and I do sympathise. But hang on a second, people, when we drive we burn petrol, which pollutes the atmosphere, releases CO2 and is just generally bad. Why are we so annoyed that we keep having to pay more to do this? Because we see it as a sort of divine right, the ability to drive. Of all the people who were surveyed, most used their car to drive to work- one woman used it for her shopping, and one for her kid. Those, IMO, are good reasons to use a car. "Just crusing around town"? NOT a good reason. Maybe the petrol hike will STOP that, which, yeah, so it'd be annoying, but maybe it would also be a good thing.

Cause we wouldn't, like, die of pollution, or something?

yeah.