ABS/CBN News

“What’s with the electric toothbrush?” Ramon Sales, convenor of the Philippine Network on Climate Change, asked as he wondered at people’s seemingly growing fixation on anything that could be plugged in.

He mused on another device, the electric peeler, and laughed at the idea that man could not anymore “naturally” remove the skin off a vegetable or fruit with his own hands.

The Globe and Mail

A Statistics Canada study released Thursday indicates that despite all the public griping, private behaviour is stuck in the same old rut. Gas prices have been rising since 2002, it noted, yet Canadian drivers have not cut back on their consumption. Last year we posted our largest annual increase in gas consumption. And in the first five months of 2008, consumption continued to rise, albeit at a modest rate of 0.5 per cent.