Car lobby loses fight to ease emission rules
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:17:02 -0700 (PDT)
What wonderful news! Maybe the motoring mob is not as all powerful as
it would like to be.
"MEPs yesterday put the European parliament on a collision course with
Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, and its powerful car lobby by
rejecting Berlin's campaign to water down European proposals for
slashing greenhous ...
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Re: Is your licence out of date?
26 Sep 2008 06:15:20 GMT
"Mortimer" <me@privacy.net> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:
>>> Are cars with foot-operated "handbrakes" actually legal in the UK (as
>>> opposed to the US where they are common) - do they satisfy the
>>> Construction and Usage regulations? How is one supposed to do a hill
>>> start in one ...
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Eco town dwellers may be monitored for green habits.
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:13:08 -0700 (PDT)
This should cut some of the greenwash. Note the bit about three planet
consumption, semanticists.
"Residents of the planned eco towns in England could face strict
monitoring of their travel habits, home insulation and even wasted
food, to ensure they are truly living a "green" lifestyle.
Experts advising the ...
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Woman cyclist crushed to death by a lorry in 'horrific' accident.
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:06:56 -0700 (PDT)
This is why people cycle on pavements and who can blame them? Had she
been in a car she probably wouldn't even have been injured.
"A woman cyclist was killed when she was hit by a lorry at a junction
in central London, the second cyclist to be killed on the capital's
streets in the past week.
The crash happen ...
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Sky jam over Britain as supercomputer crashes causing chaos at
airports
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:00:20 -0700 (PDT)
This should deter some people from further harmful and wasteful
hypermobile wander-lust. Is it worth all the airport hassles and
dreadful expansion plans?
"Tens of thousands of passengers had their plans thrown into chaos
last night after a computer glitch brought airports to a standstill.
A fault at the nati ...
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Re: Is your licence out of date?
25 Sep 2008 20:53:34 GMT
Petert <peterthomas8899@googlemail.com> gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:
> Isn't it forbidden to take your driving test in a Mecedes (or any car
> with a foot operated parking brake)?
No.
> Or am I just imagining this.
Yes. ...
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Re: Is your licence out of date?
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:29:56 +0100
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:07:09 +0100, "M............"
<mmmmmmtheobvious@freedomnames.co.uk> wrote:
>Following up to Mortimer
>
>> and that you had to apply the
>> handbrake between each change from forwards and reverse.
>
>thats the sort of pointless stuff that would irritate people. Impossible in
>one of t ...
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Re: Mayor considers 'island airport' .
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:10:26 +0100
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:15:10 +0100, "Brimstone"
<brimstone520-ng03@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Doug wrote:
>
>> Well, Pike, one possibility is all that mixed glass we are told to
>> recycle but which is crushed instead to make roads. They could halt
>> all perpetual roadbuilding for a while and divert the rocks etc t ...
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Re: Superfuels 'are just a waste of money' that don't improve cars or
save the environment
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:00:00 -0700 (PDT)
On 25 Sep, 19:12, John Wright <j...@pegasus.f2s.com> wrote:
> Tommy wrote:
> > "Paul - xxx" <notcheckede...@hotmail.com> wrote in message >
> >> Is it? ???How would you know, you're not a motorist?
>
> > Your response?
>
> > The angry, violent threats from others in the group when Doug mentions
> > things that ...
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NATS trouble again
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:27:34 +0100
I wonder if Duhg will bother to read this post at all.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7636330.stm
Will Duhg answer this post, or post a link to a Wail story about this early
tomorrow morning?
Prace bets now...
Mike P
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