How about levelling the playing field by matching costs across transport alternatives to encourage the use of the best and discourage the use of the worst ? Rather than driving around in your chauffeur driven fleet of luxury mobiles, how's about using the bus ? How about using an electric bus ? How about prioritizing all sorts of things that make things better instead of throwing subsidies around at industries and ideas that make things worse ?
that or STFU. Cos credibility is hard to come by when you keep doing what you're doing. keep to the Fen Causeway
But I won't believe anything until they assign a budget.
I've been working with the local Finnish office of Natural Interest. They have developed a piece of software containing an enormous database of sources for energy consumption - everything from a plugged in but unused phone charger, to a Supertanker. Using the software they can calculate the carbon footprint of companies, organizations, events, buildings etc. You can't be me, I'm taken
The EU's Energy Security and Solidarity Action Plan, issued on Thursday (13 November) by the European Commission, primarily proposes a diversification of energy sources towards central Asia, the Mideast and Norway.
That's the media's read, not the actual content of the document, which is a lot more focused on demand-side policies, energy efficiency and savings than is made out (of course, Barroso's comments, as quoted, don't help). In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
