Damage to the roads goes up with the fourth power of axle weight.
Why are the roads potholed? Because so many people are driving heavy trucks and SUVs.

Vertical Turbo Overboost Lift-off

Ford S-Max

Yep - you can hire vans in ots of different sizes, and you can hire them for 4 hours.

The first time a tip I’ve sent in has got used.  :-)

How should th efront passener use the steering wheel volume control?

The best way to sleep in an airport? Soundly.
The likeliest way to sleep in an airport?  Fitfully, at best.

We also use rubber crumbs as part of astroturf pitches.
Recent rsearch suggests we’ve created a very significant cacer problem for all teh kids playing on those pitches.

“You can’t call rubber and brake pad material (rubber, Kevlar, fiberglass, etc.) plastics to fit your definition of plastics.”

No - when brakes are applied, a pad of special material is pushed against a lump of metal which is part of the wheel. This makes the wheel go around more slowly.

The UK has been committed for much longer than 20 years. However the recent effect on UK political discourse and policy from the XR events has been marked.
Yes, greenery has long had a place in UK policy and politics. It’s being pushed substantially higher up the policy and political agenda, and it has already resulted…

Even with a 50-50 Remain-Leave vote split, a General Election would return 2/3rds Leave representatives, due to the distributions of the votes, plus the effects of First-past-the-post voting.

England isnlt just doing it to itself. It’s doing it to Remain-voting Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar, too.   4 jurisdictions voted. Only 1 voted to Leave.

The precedent in the UK is that close Referendum results are not implemented unless 40% of the electorate were in favour.

1979: 51.6 - 48.4% Binding Referend…

“an English Imperial gallon is a little smaller than an American gallon”

Ford B-Max does it with rear-sliding doors, and the ability to open either the front or the rear independently.

“(Maybe a B-pillarless design could come close, but I don’t see that happening with modern safety requirements).”

Check-out the Ford B-Max - a small car with no B-pillar.

It uses door-bottom latches (like the old British Leyland Safety Research Vehicles), top-of-door latches to prevent side-impact ingress into the…

Generally speaking, the half of the population most motivated to do something about rapid climate change are also the people who voted to Remain.

London has also been a very effective target. The XR protests have moved climate change very far up the policy agenda and the political priority list, as well as moving public opinion substantially to back them.

We actually did it mainly by switching off our coal-fired power stations, and becoming the worlds largest generator of wind-power instead.
Scotland now gets 88% of its yearly electricity from renewables, and all it’s coal stations are already de-commissioned.
The UK as a whole gets more than 50% of its electricity from…

Natural climate change happens at the speed of a gentle stroll. Climate change is now happening at the speed of a Formula1 racecar.

For more than 400,000 years:
- climate change has taken 2,000 to 20,000 years to change 1degC.
- the difference between a full-on Ice Age and an inter-glacial warm period is 4degC
- the…