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31 new ways to be a hypocrite in Environment

1 February 2007, 12:35 PM

Driving is hypocrisy in action for me. And having just written 31 ways to cut down our personal tonnage of CO2 for the Detox January feature, I realised that I've just added 31 new instances of hypocrisy to my list.
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An eco-trip back to the 80s in Media

4 October 2007, 10:39 AM

Unwrap a Star Bar and lean back - we're in an 80s revival and I'm going to tell you why. The growing tide of new cars claiming magically low carbon dioxide levels isn't new. In fact it's a weird facsimile of a trend that began 25 years ago.
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South London's car parts time warp in Trade and industry

14 February 2007, 5:18 PM

I don't know what running a car was like in the 60s, but I think I've found a time portal in my local car parts shop.
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Why do blokes always want to be the driver? in Driving

10 April 2007, 10:33 AM

He's called Oz and he's never had enough to drink. He claims never to suffer hangovers and he's the scourge of all bloke holidays. His family motto would be 'a day without a buzz is a day that never wuz', his crest a flaming Sambuca with bargirls couchant.
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Clash of the symbols in Media

28 June 2007, 12:33 PM

Had the PR departments of Land Rover or Jaguar been consulted, they would have surely moved heaven and earth to get Tony Blair into something else. Even a Hyundai Sonata would have done.
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Gumball: the supercar dream thief in Cars

9 May 2007, 3:04 PM

Never meet your heroes, the saying goes. There's a danger they'll disappoint. That doesn't hold for supercars, but it generally does for their drivers. And that was the Gumball Rally's biggest crime: it introduced us to supercar drivers.
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Here's my money, now cut my fuel bill in Environment

1 May 2007, 11:38 AM

Carbon offset money is now more likely to buy Jamaican matriarchs low-energy light bulbs than be ploughed into forests. Fine. But why does this carbon-saving guilt money have to go abroad?
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The Fiat 500's rotten core in Cars

6 July 2007, 12:39 PM

Warning: blog content ahead may not be 100% reverential to the Fiat 500.
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The real cost of motoring: nobody to blame but ourselves in Trade and industry

5 March 2007, 4:09 PM

In all this talk of road charging, one justificatory phrase from its supporters has been consistently annoying me: 'The cost of motoring has actually come down in real terms.' Friends of the Earth, Guardian readers, - hell, even Top Gear - have all brought it up.
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Nick Gibbs

A London-based freelance journalist, Nick Gibbs is the voice of frustrated urban petrolheads everywhere. His relief formula combines a motorbike, an old Porsche 944, loud music and road trips to countries with a more laissez-faire attitude to driving rules.

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5 November 2008, 8:57 PM

By ricbrown

Yeah sure its nice to have that heater system that warms up nice and quick, to have air con in the summer. But then at the same time feeling disconnected from the road and your surroundings. It mig...
5 November 2008, 8:52 PM

By ricbrown

Yeah sure its nice to have that heater system that warms up nice and quick, to have air con in the summer. But then at the same time feeling disconnected from the road and your surroundings. It mig...
5 November 2008, 8:48 PM

By ricbrown

Yeah sure its nice to have that heater system that warms up nice and quick, to have air con in the summer. But then at the same time feeling disconnected from the road and your surroundings. It mig...
5 November 2008, 8:46 PM

By ricbrown

Yeah sure its nice to have that heater system that warms up nice and quick, to have air con in the summer. But then at the same time feeling disconnected from the road and your surroundings. It mig...
5 November 2008, 8:46 PM

By ricbrown

Yeah sure its nice to have that heater system that warms up nice and quick, to have air con in the summer. But then at the same time feeling disconnected from the road and your surroundings. It mig...