Pete Smith @ July 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Fellowtravellers is a radical new concept in mass transport which claims to offer an environmentally-friendly, economical and reliable alternative to the stresses and strains of traditional public transport and a genuine non-car travel option. It is an alternative, local, and responsive public transport system which puts the needs of the traveller at the heart of [...]
Pete Smith @ May 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Shares in British Airways rose sharply this morning after preliminary results for the 12 months to March revealed annual pre-tax profits up by 44.5% to £883 million. These excellent figures are bucking the trend in airlines around the world, and particularly in the US, where the airline sector as a whole posted an $11 billion [...]
Pete Smith @ May 9, 2008 # One Comment
May 18-23 2008 is Walk to School Week. The Walk to School campaign asks parents, pupils and teachers to think about their journey to and from school and the many benefits of making it on foot. Walk to School is promoted jointly by ACTTravelwise and Living Streets, and is now in its 13th year, with [...]
Pete Smith @ March 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I promised myself I’d ignore it, but I failed. The grotesque circus that is Formula 1 motor racing is on the move again. The 2008 season has kicked off in Australia, with Britain’s golden boy Lewis Hamilton winning the Melbourne Grand Prix. Now everyone’s off to Malaysia for Round 2, the juggernauts and executive jets [...]
Pete Smith @ January 17, 2008 # One Comment
A court in Paris has found oil giant Total responsible for the sinking of the tanker Erika. The world’s fourth-largest oil company must pay a fine of €375,000 for negligence, plus €200 million in damages. The incident, in December 1999, caused a 20,000 tonne slick of heavy oil which polluted 250 miles of the French [...]
Pete Smith @ January 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A year ago, General Motors launched the Chevy Volt, a battery-powered concept car that has generated a huge amount of interest with the car-buying public. Amidst growing speculation that GM are having problems with the Volt’s battery technology, to the extent that they are steering potential customers towards their hybrid models, the car giant unveiled [...]
Pete Smith @ December 1, 2007 # 3 Comments
The Australian reports that China is running out of fuel. (‘Chinese tiger has nothing in tank‘). Police are guarding petrol stations in several inland provinces to prevent fights, as shortages of petrol and diesel are causing huge queues of trucks, buses and cars. In Kunming, capital of the southwestern province of Yunnan, 1000 trucks are [...]
Pete Smith @ November 30, 2007 # 2 Comments
Last week the government launched its consultation into plans for a third runway and sixth terminal at London Heathrow. Greenpeace has been in touch with The Coffee House, asking us to support their ‘Stop Heathrow Expansion’ campaign. As in most issues nowadays, the prime arguments against the expansion are climate change and economics. To quote [...]
Pete Smith @ November 20, 2007 # One Comment
Talking of green cars … as you’d expect from an event taking place in California, the greenest place on the planet, the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show is packed with models that would be powered by various combinations of alternative fuels or hybrid drive-trains, if only the motoring masses could get their hands on them. [...]
Pete Smith @ November 20, 2007 # No Comment Yet
At the Los Angeles Auto Show, Honda unveiled its new model the FCX Clarity, powered by the Honda V Flow hydrogen fuel cell stack. American Honda plans to lease the FCX Clarity to a limited number of retail consumers in Southern California with the first deliveries taking place in summer 2008. This follows a recent [...]
