Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North Idaho
North Idaho is feeling the pinch at the pump ... but this Spokane Street service station in Post Falls is covering all of their bases with serving customers' alternative transportation/Kerri Thoreson, OnLocation North Idaho.

I'm not much for causes, having watched the flower-children movement of my youth degenerate into a drug-addled society. I admire those who have enough passion about something to take to the streets to protest. Or to travel to a public meeting to speak up. Mebbe being a journalist is part of my problem. I'm trained to be an observer. Not to get involved. But there's one cause under way in the area that intrigues me. Travel Green re: transportation. No, I'm not about to become a granola head. But the cause proposed by our Editorial Board this morning -- cutting down on the use of vehicles to get to work and other places -- comes at a time when I've already cut back. By default.

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