
petrol: 1/7 of 7
How green is your fuel?
Andrew Simms
12th April, 2012
In an exclusive extract from 'Ampera We're Electric', Andrew Simms takes a closer look at what powers our cars and asks whether motoring has a greener future to look forward to more...
Will high petrol prices help the environment?
Mark Jansen
12th July, 2010
High petrol prices mean less demand and less pollution, right? Not necessarily, finds Mark Jansen. Our relationship with our cars is far more complex... more...
As the troops withdraw, the oil execs move in...
Dan Box
7th July, 2009
As US troops pulled out of Iraq last week the bidding for the country's oil fields began. Big Oil makes for epic (tragic) drama says Dan Box more...
Peak oil is welcome
Richard Heinberg
7th August, 2008
Climate change is a problem of fossil fuel dependency, and solving it requires reducing that dependency quickly and dramatically. more...
Factories Around the World Consider Halting Production of Biofuels as Price Soars
News
26th February, 2007
Less than a month after George Bush used his State of the Union address to announce that the US would use biofuels to achieve energy independence, companies across the globe are threatening to stop production because of rising prices. more...
The End of Cheap Oil - The Consequences
Dan Box, Tully Wakeman and Jeremy Smith
1st October, 2005
Our lives are now so dependent on oil that it is impossible to conceive of a world without it. Before long, however, we will have no choice. The sooner we start planning for that reality, and changing the way we live, the better our chance of survival. more...
Debate: Sports Utility Vehicles (4x4s)
Michael Harvey and Paul Kingsnorth
21st May, 2005
Are SUVs a crime against civilisation, or paragons of efficiency? Are they ugly, arrogant and antisocial, or bright, beautiful and mobile? And do the polar passions they arouse pit the politics of envy against the Americanisation of British culture? Paul Kingsnorth and Michael Harvey discussmore...


