Apocalypse Soon

Consider this future for Hamilton. Within 10 years gas prices will be four times the current $1.06 per litre cost. The ramifications are extensive, from more expensive strawberries in winter, to the consolidation of the packaging industries, to a future divide between the rich and poor.

Hamilton, which is billing itself as Southern Ontario’s transportation hub will be paralyzed. The Hamilton International Airport would be devastated because planes are the most inefficient users of fuel and the most vulnerable to high fuel pricing. Passenger and cargo transportation will be exorbitantly expensive, as will trucking, making the Red Hill Creek Expressway, and other transportation corridors redundant.
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