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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2005-07-20, Page 3News First Smart car in Seaforth-area gets rave reviews from owners By Jason Middleton Expositor Staff The only complaint that Harry and Mabel Nesbitt have heard about their new environmentally -friendly Smart car has been from two of their grandsons. On a recent visit to the Nesbitt's farm in Seaforth, the grandsons took the car out for a test drive and when they got into Seaforth a group of girls whistled at the boys and they pulled over to show them the car. The boys were going to offer the girls a ride, but the Smart car only seats two people "so there wasn't any room go they couldn't pick them up," Mabel said While the two -seated car might be small, Mabel explained that it has some speed behind it. She said that the car can accelerate to 135 km per hour. "So you can get a speeding ticket," Mabel said. The furthest the couple has driven in the car has been to London and they said that driving anywhere in the car is just like being in any other car. "It feels like you're driving in a big car," Mabel said. "When you're driving around you don't feel like you're in a small car." While the car is environmentally friendly and very economic on fuel, the couple said that it does have Local gas stations hearing complaints about rising gas prices From Page 1 says. "If it costs us more to bring it here from our refinery, it's going to cost us more to pump it out." Passing the cost on to the customer is something they simply have to do, she says. "We have no choice." A Canadian Press report posted on July 13 on Canada.com states that the average cost of gasoline in Canada was 95.7 cents/litre, up 4.3 cents from the week before. The article says that consumers in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, were paying $1.054 for gas, the highest price in the country. Edmonton, Calgary and St. Catharines, Ontario had the lowest prices - "in the 87 cent range," the article stated. And while many interviewed for this Expositor story were grumbling, Seaforth man Paul Copeland took a more philosophical view. He said gas prices aren't as bad here as they are in other places in the world, later adding, "People can afford to buy SUVs and then they complain about the price gas is. I lived two years in Mexico. I saw poverty. People don't know how lucky they are to live in a country like this. They complain about all kinds of things." ,To be fair, however, Copeland says he has put only 4,400 km on a car he bought last August, "I don't buy gas that often," he admitted. Harry and Mabel Nesbitt pose with their new environmentally -friendly Smart car. its downsides. "It's no good for a man, a wife and two kids," Harry said. The couple bought the car in January and said that they never had any problems driving it in the • winter even up the driveway of their farmhouse. "It's just like another car," Mabel aerodynamics, the car is shaped like an egg. Mabel explained than another benefit of shaping the vehicle like an egg is that when you squeeze an egg you cannot break it. Quoted `It's the car of the future. In Europe it's just about the only car you see,' Mabel Nesbitt said. "I've never found anything different." Mabel and Harry explained that they were surprised that transport trucks driving by in the other lane do not throw around their Smart car. To help with "They used the same principal to make this," she said. "It's quite safe." Every part of the Smart car, according to Mabel, can be recycled making it very "environmentally friendly." "It's the car of the future. In Europe it's just about the only car you see," Mabel said. The Nesbitt's first noticed the Smart car when they visited different parts of Europe over the past eight years. While the car's engine is powered with diesel, which is almost as much a litre as gasoline, Mabel said that her car is more fuel-efficient than most cars. According to a Smart car brochure, the car uses about 4.2 litres of diesel per 100 km. Compared to her husband's car, Mabel said that she spends a lot less to keep her car running. "I spend as much on fuel in a month as he spends on gas in a week in his car," she said. . In the area, the Nesbitt's know of at least seven other people who drive Smart cars. "I figure in two year's they'll be thick (more Smart cars on the road) because of the price of gas," Mabel said. COMPANY ilmaatz tiY SUMMER SALE ALL SUMMER STOCK MARKED DOWN FALL STOCK STARTING TO ARRIVE MITCHELL, ONT 348-0638 C:f4t- Paw/Haat STORE HOURS MON. - WED. 9:00 A.M. - 5:30 P.M. THURSDAY 9:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. FRIDAY 9:00 A.M. - 5:30 P.M. 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ANY PERSON may attend the public meeting and/or make written or verbal representation either in support of or in opposition to the proposed zoning by- law. If a person or public body that files an appeal of a decision of the Corporation of the Municipality of Huron East in respect of the proposed zoning by-law does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Corporation of the Municipality of Huron East before the proposed zoning by-law is adopted, the Ontario Municipal Board may dismiss all or part of the appeal. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION relating to the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment is available at the Municipality of Huron East Municipal Office during normal business hours. DATED AT THE MUNICIPALITY OF HURON EAST THIS 15th DAY OF July 2005. J. R. McLachlan Clerk, Municipality of Huron East 72 Main Street South, Box 610 Seaforth, Ontario NOK 1 WO (519) 527-0160; 1-888-868-7513 (toll free from Brussels and Grey) PURPOSE AND EFFECT As a text amendment, this proposed Zoning By-law affects the Brussels Zoning By-law, the Seaforth Zoning By-law and the Tuckersmith Zoning By-law and affects all of the Ward of Brussels, the Ward of Seaforth and the Ward of Tuckersmith in the Municipality of Huron East. The By-law proposes to: 1. Add definitions for 'Condominium Act', 'Planning Act', 'Terms'. 2. Delete the existing Definition of 'lot' and replace it with a new Definition for 'Iot'to include: • a lot in a plan of subdivision. • a whole of a unit in a Vacant Land Condominium. • a parcel of common elements within a Vacant Land Condominium or within a Common Elements Condominium Plan. • the whole of the lands within a Standard Condominium Plan; • a conveyable parcel. 3. Delete the existing General Provisions for 'Lots to Front on a Public Road' and replace it with new General Provisions for 'Lots to Front on a Public Road': • require lots to abut or front on a public road and that such public road is of satisfactory' construction and maintenance; • to allow structures to be built on lots in a Vacant Land Condominium Plan or on a Common Element Condominium on a private road provided that access to the Plan is by a public road; • to Allow a condominium plan access to a public road through lands entirely within one or more other condominium plans.