Energy Efficiency

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Electric Car Shock!

March 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Every so often, a rat with a gold tooth trots out the ‘latest investment opportunity’ and a skeptic might suggest another such ‘opportunity to make money’ by another of the rat-pack has surfaced. It would be interesting to find the ‘press release as a news story’ that helped seperate Queenslanders from their cash when Peter [...]

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Tags: australia · electricity · transport

The Future Fund, Tying up Investments With String

January 29th, 2010 · No Comments

Public servants and anyone else either directly or indirectly connected must have grave fears that the fund managers – after ‘investing in Telstra’ – have bought a string manufacturer instead of sticky tape.   Given that most intelligent fund managers must know of Peak Oil, rising fuel costs and reducing road trips resulting in toll [...]

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Tags: money · transport

Feeling let down by Kevin Rudd on climate change?

January 27th, 2009 · No Comments

http://www.climatesummit.org.au/dayofaction

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Tags: australia · climate change · transport

Holden MD Mark Reuss Challenges Dr Seuss for World’s Greatest Storyteller

December 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

One can only wonder how people with no real understanding of logic could logically run a company, yet Holden’s chairman and managing director Mark Reuss is a glaring example. What a sureal world his children must grow up in, what fairytale stories of fanciful magic …. In the Age, Reuss claims that ‘Australia’s favourite car [...]

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Tags: australia · ethanol · oil · transport

QANTAS Cuts Services, Oil Prices Bigger Threat Than September 11 attacks

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Concerns over recent surge in oil prices could pose a far bigger threat to the airline industry and the world economy than September 11 attacks. United States airlines are expected to cut capacity by 15 per cent as they retire less fuel-efficient jets, but already airline companies (see earlier stories) are dropping out of the [...]

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Tags: australia · oil · transport