Real Canadian beer should come in a "stubby" bottle. Drink it warm! -->

A Natural Resources Canada study has castigated Canadian beer fridges as cooling at the expense of global warming.

"People need to understand the impact of their lifestyles," says Joanna Yarrow, director of Beyond Green, a sustainable development consultancy in the UK. "Clearly the environmental implications of having a frivolous luxury like a beer fridge are not hitting home. This research helps inform people – let's hope it has an effect".

This is pretty much par for the course up north--a country so insular and parochial that its hard to take it seriously. It is said that as California goes, so goes the country. Well as Canada goes, so go the Democrats. Eventually they'll be in your beer fridges too.

The funny thing is, I don't think I ever saw a beer fridge in all my time in Canada. Most people had a case in the garage and just transfered a six pack at a time to the fridge. Electricity is expensive in Canada and disposal income in short supply (due to confiscatory taxes...)