Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ In a major push to encourage more motorists to switch to ethanol-based auto fuel, Thailand’s cabinet has agreed to exempt import tariffs on E85 car parts as well as lowering excise taxes for E85-fuelled cars. E85 is a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 per cent gasoline.
The director-general of the Ministry of [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Green Assembly
What do Bangkok Taxi drivers say about fuel?
BANGKOK ~ Taxi drivers are an excellent source of information about what it costs to buy, maintain, service and run a car, so whenever I’m in a cab I always ask the driver loads of questions. Nowadays, most of my questions are about fuel and filling stations.
All the [...]
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Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ The Thai government cabinet is expected to give the go-ahead later this week for a US$1.74 billion plan to lease-purchase 6,000 buses that will run on natural gas, replacing a similar number of diesel-driven vehicles over an 18-month period.
The plan, which was first mooted in August 2006, calls for the introduction of 3,000 [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Green Assembly
THE price of a barrel of oil has gone from US$11 in 1970 to US$140 today. If the price continues to increase at the same rate, we will be paying US$1,778 per barrel by the year 2046. Meanwhile, a spokesman for OPEC said on TV last night that demand for oil will increase by 50 [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Green Assembly
THE G8 leaders have let us down yet again. Since 1975, the heads of state of the major industrial democracies have been meeting annually to deal with the major economic and political issues facing their domestic societies and the international community as a whole.
Some 33 years later, and despite their massive financial muscle, they still [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ Following a highly successful outcome last year, the Young Thai Science Journalist Competition 2008 has just been launched by its co-organisers, the British Council (BC), the National Science Museum and the Nation Junior Magazine.
Upper secondary school students across Thailand are being encouraged to take part in the competition by working in teams to [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Green Assembly
I saw on TV that an Indian company is building a massive processing plant to turn waste cooking oil collected from restaurants, schools and fast-food outlets into biodiesel fuel for cars and lorries.
This is no mom-and-pop venture. Production capacity at the plant is 300 tonnes per day. Nor is it a pipe-dream. The plant is already up and running, [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ Toyota Motor Corporation, as part of an effort to further popularize hybrid vehicles worldwide, will begin producing the “Camry Hybrid” here in Thailand next year (2009), with an annual production target of 9,000 vehicles.
Thailand is the first ASEAN country in which Toyota will build hybrid vehicles. The Camry has been well received [...]
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Posted on July 6th, 2008 by Green Assembly
THE Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA) has announced plans to invest Bt7.5 billion (US$227 million) to boost production capacity and improve distribution.
The investment, which will be made during the period 2009 through 2011, aims to increase MWA’s tap-water production capacity by 800,000 cubic metres, to 6.3 million cubic metres per day.
MWA calculates that this should be enough [...]
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Posted on July 4th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SOME 257 secondary schools across Thailand have registered for the Schools Ecological Footprint Challenge 2008, the project organiser said in a statement issued on Thursday. The British Council, who are running the competition for the second year, said the total is 42 per cent up on last year and shows that interest in the environment is gathering [...]
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