Starters Orders!

Despite the disapointment for Lewis Hamilton over the weekend, there today starts a race that hopefully will be great for everyone in the future.

I’ll keep an eye on this and inform you as the days go by. They should finish in about four days time!

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We Support Renewable Energy – Honest!

Yet another great example of saying one thing and doing another from our great government!

Why can’t they get the idea that the consumer can have a major inpact on them reaching the EU targets for renewable energy!

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Green Power Cuts!

Well it seems ages since I wrote my post about 20 ways to go green for very little money, but it’s actually only been a couple of months.

Today I’ve just received my latest gas and electricity bills, and guess what? They’ve actually gone down,and not just a few quid, I mean really gone down.

I’m not yet doing everything I suggested, but a fair proportion of it, but combined we’ve seen an almost 20% reduction in our bills. We’ll have to keep an eye on this over the winter and at some point soon I’ll do a direct comparison with last years bills and try to factor out the energy price changes.

All in all I’m very happy, this has to have an effect on our carbon foot print!

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The Beast Stirs!

I’m fairly sure that one of the main reasons my carbon footprint is so high, is the number of vehicles we have in our household. When you calculate your footprint questions are asked about the types and numbers of vehicles in the household. My personal view on the issue is, you can only drive one car at a time, your not increasing the carbon you produce if only one car is running. If you only had one car and ran it for four hours a day you would not produce any less carbon than someone who has four cars and runs each for an hour a day.

This is of course might just be my internal justification for being a petrol head. I love all things internal combustion wise! I realise that this goes against the environmental grain, but as I said at the start of this blog, I try to be practical and realistic.

Anyway the real reason for this post is that my kit car has passed it’s MOT, which to be honest is a bloody miracle! 

So, now all I need to do is get the over heating sorted and we’re back in business.