- September 25, 2008
- EU Law Leaps Forward while UK flatfoots in Energy Wilderness
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Some wonderful news this week for people worried about the real future of our world. The EU are hammering down on car emissions! EU rejects efforts to delay CO2 limits on cars RPT-UPDATE 2-EU lawmakers snub big carmakers over carbon curbs Blow to carmakers Climate package: Carbon-free cars? (pre-vote EU Parliament post) Reducing CO2 emissions [...]
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- August 14, 2008
- Another American gets his Priorities Wrong
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A laughable bit of summer news arrived yesterday in the form of a 70 year old Ohio man, who reportedly paid for his car with coinage. Here’s $8,000 in coins – ‘I want that Chevy truck’ tootled the Cincinnati Enquirer. Er… not quite. He paid for half of it because he “doesn’t trust paper money” [...]
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- June 21, 2008
- Ford Cuts SUVs Now!
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Following on from my earlier posting mentioning General Motors cutbacks in SUV production due to rising fuel prices, Ford has now done the same. And about time, too! The car companies will still make pots of money by making smaller, more efficient cars. They will actually be cheaper to make when looking at the raw [...]
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- June 4, 2008
- How the UK is Fortunate to be Protected by having High Road Fuel Taxes
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or Analysing the Red Herrings of the Fuel & Road Protests Fuel Price Herring The recent fuel protests and road tax protests got me thinking. Everyone in Britain thinks that they are badly off. They think that fuel is REALLY expensive here. Here’s what the AA have to say on fuel prices across Europe (all [...]
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