STOP CAR POLLUTION - Petition Mandatory Telecommuting Law

Please email  to your government representative.

For the U.S. See http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Members.Home 

For Canada See http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/senmemb/senate/isenator.asp 

Or contact members at JCI at  http://www.jci.cc/meetings/en/home.php 

We the undersigned want our government representatives to stop unnecessary car pollution by commuters.
Please make commuting illegal for knowledge worker professions a law.

Please draft a law to promote telecommuting:

The law should not penalize employees, but subsidize them in some manner by tax deductions or indirectly from employer penalties paid to government. If a commuter travels to an office no matter how short to do mostly knowledge oriented work, the employer should pay a sum sufficient for an employee or government to work from their home office. The government should provide a subsidy to fund the employee with high speed internet conferencing and related equipment to allow the employee to work from home.

Why?:

Knowledge workers capable of telecommuting their work from home make up a good portion of today's workers. Let's pass a law that significantly taxes any employer for every knowledge worker working on their premises who can otherwise telecommute (and consequently not be required to drive to work).

Before the industrial revolution, most of us lived on farms or worked small villages, producing rural cottage items like cheese, socks or wool fabric to be sold or exchanged for others in small local rural markets.

But with the introduction of steam engine technology, fuel burning power became available to run automated fabric, steel and wood mills. As industry grew, more workers were needed, but few were willing to give up their rural homes to work in industrial centers.

So industrialists and politicians gave incentives for workers to move to industrial centers by taxation and incentives.
But as more workers moved to these centers, the centers expanded and widened; this in turn required more home to work commuting time and utilization of  cars, roads, transit, trains and other infrastructures. Transit, train and car transportation within an ever-increasing commuting distance evolved to our current commuting energy consuming dilemma. In this century, cities like New York now span more than 60 kilometers.

Do our industries still need such a massive stream of cars, transporting so many people, creating mountains of carbon dioxide each and every day? Maybe this proposed mandatory telecommute law and our current communications technology can be a little fix to reducing our carbon emissions.

So please vote to make this painless solution a reality for us and our children!

Time us running out.

Please make this happen. Send this to your local government representative!

Thank you!