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Car deluge turns Kiev into lawless parking lot {Autoblog Green}
Mar 27th 2008 12:40PM "routinely drive on the sidewalks."
If you don't like the way I drive, get off the road... wait ... sidewalk? ....
What is next, lawn?
Unbelievable.
Go with Danny on a quick test drive of the Kewet Buddy in the UK {Autoblog Green}
Dec 18th 2007 10:01AM i bet its very unsafe (just imagine sitting in a queue at traffic lights and a truck hit the back of you"
I positively agree that vehicles are very unsafe. That is why I have upgraded to a tank that drive to work avery day. It would be so much safer if everyone drove a tank... Wait, I guess I would have to get a bigger tank. Then I would be safe... Sure...
Seriously, I'm not proposing that everyone drive one of these little electric cars, but I do think that there should be a limit on the mass of vehicles on the road. There was a time when shipping was done on trains and only local delivery happened on our highways. Now everyone has to drive a big truck to feel safe because of all of the big trucks driving around. How about we limit the highways to cars and make trucks with a larger mass go slower or ship their freight with trains? would'nt this make us considerably safer and use less fuel to boot?
Project BioReGen: Planting trees to recover a damaged ecosystem {Autoblog Green}
Dec 18th 2007 9:36AM "The process is called biorecovery"
Actually, when used to clean up polluted ecosystems I believe it is called bioremediation. I don't know much about about it, but I find it facinating. They use specific plants to clean certain pollutants out of the ecosystem. Different plants will filter out certain heavy metals for instance. They have even done gold harvesting near depleted gold mines. they grow a crop, burn it and harvest the gold from the ashes. I think that they do somthing similar for superfund cleanup sites.
AAIA launches poll on how our driving habits could be affected with higher gas prices {Autoblog Green}
Nov 9th 2007 1:42PM In full disclosure I work for AAIA, but I don't work in the research department. If I recall from Econ 102, fuel prices are a case book example of a product with an elastic demand. In the short to medium run, people 'have to' use oil. There are no easy substitutes. So, where you would expect demand to tip down it does not and keeps on at a straight line. At some point however there is a tipping point and demand will rapidly drop off. For me, that point is when it costs less for me to take the metro than to drive and park (I know that there are externalities, this is just an example). So, maybe we are getting closer to that tipping point? Or perhaps we have had the price of oil high for too long and people are starting to find substitutes (working closer to their houses or telecomuting, public transportation, new fuel efficient vehicles)?
EU backing off on tight CO2 emissions limits {Autoblog Green}
Oct 28th 2007 8:58AM "The European Commission is the regulatory arm while the European Union is the legislative body"
Actually, The European Commission is kind of like the U.S.'s executive branch and cabinet. They have a bicameral system with the parliament and body of ministers. There is also their European judiciary system which has more of a say on legislation than the U.S. does. It's kind of complicated, but could be considered more democratic in certain ways. Thanks for the post.
