Yesterday morning an elderly America friend phoned at 0600!!!  The conversation turned to talk about oil prices.  He was complaining that Gas was $2 a GALLON.
He was speechless when told that in the UK we pay the equivalent of $1 a PINT.

Your home is clean, right? So what’s up then? VOC’s. What’s VOC’s? Volatile Organic Compounds. What’s wrong with them? They are carcinogenic and they could be in your wallpaper and same goes for the glue!
If you read the labels on the paper and glue you would likely not have bought the […]

Another blast from the past today. May 2004 again.
A Kentish farmer with 4,500 acres of arable crops and 20,000 free-range hens and a flock of sheep, wanted to cut his diesel bill.
Being close to the rapidly growing town of Ashford, plenty of restaurants and takeaways are around. The farmer seized the opportunity and went […]

I have been clearing out press cuttings concerning environmental issues.
This is from a Kent newspaper dated May30th 2004.
The White Cliffs of Dover are/were one of the few sites left where the rare Plant Meadow Clary grows.  With only a handfull of sites hosting about 1,000 plants across Britain, Meadow Clary is faced with extinction.
This time […]

Kent has been saved from a fate worse than death.  The nimbies have won yet another victory at the expense of our communal environment.  The proposed windfarm in the Thames Estuary has been dropped by Shell.  Could this be because crude oil is $120 a barrel?
The Government are always giving hefty subsidies to the ‘wind’ […]

This is a post for the USA as I think this would be too long a journey to the UK for        Bill Cook.
Bill’s Company Gorilla Services serves no less than 50 States in the USA.
This is what Bill writes about his company- Gorilla Service Industries is a contract cleaning expert for residential jobs, construction, commercial, […]

This was reported at the beginning of March this year.  500,000 people in the UK live in fuel poverty.
Has anyone heard any more about this, maybe it’s because it’s warm at the moment.
What about the energy use monitors that the Government were promising free to every household last year?
Never mind, you can always buy a […]

Brief report from CNN
The wonder car is fuelled by a 6,831 cell lithium battery pack.
Mmm! just how big does the battery charger need to be?
With so much of the World in crisis, how can such extravigance be justified?

Hello to all my readers, I hope this finds you well.
I know a few of you because you have linked to my site, but what about the rest of you?  By that I mean my Oz and New Zealand readers, those of you in India and the USA and so many others.
If you have taken […]

Ah well, the Govenment have sold yet another piece of the family silver!  On 23rd April I wrote about the fact that our nuclear power industry was virtually up for grabs.  Well, the Russians didn’t get the contract. (After last night’s programme on the aftermath at Chernobil thank heavens they didn’t).
The prize goes to jointly […]