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Green Air Filters For Your Car
Alright, all you soy sipping, yogurt eating, diet doing, hybrid driving, environmentally eccentric folks from Vancouver: listen up. You may be causing more damage to the environment than you already know. How so? Your Audi’s air filter, that’s how. Yes, it is true: if you keep your car long enough you will be performing under-the-hood maintenance which will include changing your air filter at least once a year. Keep that same car for ten years and that is ten years of stuff clogging North America’s landfills. And you call yourself earth friendly? Tsk, tsk!
All kidding aside, there is an environmentally friendly way whereby if you follow just one small, but important step you can achieve oneness with nature, if not with your wallet: replace your car’s disposable air filter one final time with a reusable air filter.
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Electric Cars – As Green As the Electricity That Runs Them
It’s the way forward – and we’re not talking about garlic bread here – it’s the electric car. Governments throughout the world have suddenly seen the light. Elastic trickery will whoosh us around the planet, silently, cleanly. The meadows will be greener, the polar bears will build new ice shelves and everyone will live happily ever after. But how will mankind achieve this? Well if the rumours in the UK and US are to be believed the first step will be to offer £5000 ($7500 in the US) off the price of a new electric car. On the strength of the huge sales that are made, technology will become cheaper and before we know it, everyone will be wondering why we ever had a dependence on oil. Happy days!
Electricity is great! We may not be able to see it but it’s there every time we want it, at the flick of a switch and it’s cheaper than oil. That is until demand outstrips supply. So what is needed is a plentiful source of electricity, a clean source of electricity. So it may come as no surprise to many, that whilst many of the world’s journalists were trying out the Chevy Volt mule and electric cars were all over the news channels, the British government announced the eleven proposed sites for the next generation of nuclear power stations. Cynical? Maybe, but we are going to need to get the power from somewhere.
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