Tag: global_warming
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Tax on company cars causes increased carbon emissions!
I was speaking to a sales rep yesterday who was driving a company car. He told me about the Irish government’s scheme to tax people for receipt of company cars. It is called Benefit in Kind (BiK). Basically, if your employer gives you a company car, you are liable to pay 30% of the original…
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An inconvenient truth
I watched Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth last night and, I must say, it was very good. Hopefully it will serve as a wake up call to those who dismiss climate change as a myth. Unfortunately though, I think those who watch it will do so because they have an interest in this area…
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Is clean, cheap energy in the pipeline?
A report in Friday’s Guardian tells of a new form of clean, cheap energy production – which has academics fighting over quantum theory! Basically, the new form of energy production, called hydrino energy, breaks the rules of long accepted quantum theory and so while it might work in practice, it doesn’t appear to work in…