I put it down to jealousy and anger that they have to pay $1.34 a litre to feed a gas hog that they don't really need but bought to keep up with the Joneses or to act as a prosthesis for their ego. Hits them right in the cultural sense of automotive entitlement.

In other news, keep an eye peeled for a smallish Giant Bowery http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/bik/752916987.html

Not all that common so it should be easy to spot.

In yet other news, I just finished Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion". There's a mention of the first vehicle to cross the Bloor Viaduct was a guy on a bicycle who jumped through the barricades and raced ahead before the planned VIP motorcade got across. I went to the Toronto archives and found this, which is my new wallpaper. The fullsize version is available at the Toronto Archives. http://www.toronto.ca/archives/photographs/index.htm
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