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Why Are Gas Prices So High?
by William Bezanson
171 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-3106; ISBN 1-4120-8109-2; US$17.00, C$19.00, EUR14.00, £9.00
Want to do something about high gas prices? Slow down -- drive at the speed limit! Reading this book will change your life, and you will change the world!
About the Book
Why are gas prices so high? Don't you wish you could do something about them? Do they seem beyond your control? Frustrated? Well, this book suggests something tangible that you can do about high gas prices. Slow down and drive at the speed limit! Follow the charming story of one family who tried just that, and see the miraculous result. This book will change your life, and you will change the world. Read it and respond. You'll be glad you did!
The book follows the growth of Claire Atwater and her Nova Scotian family over a three-year period. It starts with a discussion of gas prices, and forcing them lower by slowing down to drive at the speed limit. It evolves to a spiritual plane on which people slow down to simplify their lives and take responsibility for the world. The speed limit movement spreads rapidly throughout the world, with very beneficial results for people and the environment. The originator of the movement, Claire, is awarded the Order of Canada for her innovation.This book will be appealing to thinking adults who care about the environment and about their children's future and their own future, not only in this life, but also in subsequent ones. It will be of special interest to spiritual people who have grown beyond conventional religion and who are open to a broad view of reality.
Humanity is ready for a fundamental transformation to a compassionate form of caring for each other and for the world. For example, see the books Pay It Forward and In Praise of Slowness, and also the "Slow Cities" movement that started in Italy. This book provides a model and inspiration for a grass-roots movement for such a fundamental transformation.
About the Author
William Bezanson, P.Eng, is an engineer who advises organizations on how to design products and services to be user-centered. He has published a professional book on that subject, Performance Support Solutions: Achieving Business Goals Through Enabling User Performance, Victoria BC: Trafford Publishing, 2002. One of his interests is in leaving the world better than he found it, and his book Why Are Gas Prices So High? is intended to further that interest. He is writing a second novel, on the same subject as his Performance Support book, but conveying the same information in a light-hearted, fictional form. He grew up in Nova Scotia, was educated in Halifax, and now lives with his wife and family in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
His earlier book: Performance Support Solutions
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Reviews
"What Mr. Bezanson is out to change is nothing less than the human psyche itself… We are launched into an uplifting exploration of how interiorizing change in the psyche first could result in lifestyle changes which can enhance all aspects of our family and social interactionf…I've read many self-help and psychological books. None was better than this [Why Are Gas Prices So High?] at providing such an ongoing upliftf… Why Are Gas Prices So High? should be considered as a possible gift for the nay-sayer in your family who doesn't want to entertain anything but the traditional technology."
- Mary-Sue Haliburton, Editor, Pure Energy Systems Network — Sept 13, 2006
"The central idea in this book is very, very interesting… It is a brilliant idea to address environmental issues by bringing to life some real-life characters in a novel."
- Jawad Gilani, Host, "The Correspondent", CHUO Radio, Ottawa, ON (From an interview broadcast April 6, 2006)
"This book is a fictional account of how a lesson in saving gasoline by slowing down your driving speed can lead to other benefits as well… A lesson to slow down and gain more spiritual peace."
- "Author seeks answers, and gets a lot more", Nepean This Week, April 28, 2006, page 12.
