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GM Blunders onto Campus

If you are a student looking to add tens of thousands of dollars of long term debt, care little about the environment, and want to lump two tons of steel around campus while paying through the nose for insurance, gas, and parking…General Motors has got a perfect deal for you. Bonus: it’ll make you fat […]

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Weird Ways of Running a Car

Cars have proven to be a very efficient way to burn oil in a very short time while heavily polluting earth and water for its extraction, and the air by combustion. Now that oil extraction is peaking (or about to peak, according to sources), car addicts look desperately for new ways to power their iron […]

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Road Rage Miss

A woman from Essen, Germany became so furious after an argument with her husband, that she left her house armed with a hammer, in order to smash his car. After breaking the windshield, headlights and mirrors of the car, she realised she made a mistake by confusing the vehicle of her husband, a blue Ford […]

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Car Cult

As we all know, the car is a strong cultural feature of our industrial societies. Many citizens all over the world devote an amazing amount of time to their car – talking about it, working for it, enjoying a car trip to rest, cleaning their car to relax. Everyday new adepts cross novel limits, tuning […]

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Black Gold

Everyday an unimaginable amount of oil – a precious resource! – is consumed without any vision for a future after Peak Oil. Not even the latest massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico affects the irresponsibility of oil companies like British Petroleum. According to Barack Obama, “we are dealing with a massive and potentially […]

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Berlin’s Latest (road) Rage

Don’t have a car of your own, yet want to enjoy the incredible sensation of drive-in theatres? Well, those lucky enough to live in Berlin had the chance last March to visit the free “art” exhibit entitled “Auto Kino”, which offered the chance to go to an indoor USA-in-the-60’s style drive-in movie theatre, and sit […]

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Don’t Disturb the Traffic

Last year, government officials from Guanzhu, China had to face a rise of suicides on a particular bridge in the city. They were of course not preoccupied with this social issue, but rather with the traffic jams created by the disturbance. According to government spokesman Shiu Liang, they tried everything: “We tried employing guards at […]

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Parking on the Edge

Last month in Tusla, United States, a car broke through an outside wall on the 6th floor of a parking garage and was hanging over the edge. The 67-year-old driver told the police that he somehow got his foot stuck under the gas pedal. There were no injuries in the accident; only a few parked […]

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A New Friend of the Earth

“As part of our risk management framework, we systematically assess and manage the risks inherent in our operations, such as those arising from technical integrity failure and loss of containment of hydrocarbons and other hazardous materials, or the risks that arise to the personal safety of our workforce or members of the public. Our systems […]

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Trapped by his Car

Last month, a driver living close to Nice, France had a new experience of what it is like to be trapped by technology. On his way home, he was going up a small hill in his car, a Citroën C4, when its electronic system broke down. As all functions were dependent on electronics, the driver […]