The Nest of Vast Neon Wolf » environment http://www.vastneonwolf.net Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:03:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Vic Police do their part for Global Warming. http://www.vastneonwolf.net/2008/09/08/vic-police-do-thier-part-for-global-warming/ http://www.vastneonwolf.net/2008/09/08/vic-police-do-thier-part-for-global-warming/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:59:10 +0000 stefwill http://www.vastneonwolf.net/?p=61 Anyone would think that, at a time of dwindling oil supplies and rising oil prices, the Victorian State Government would be looking a hybrid police cars and alternate fuels sources. Seems like a no-brainer to me. But in a radical, some might say downright backwards move, the boys and girl in blue will be tooling around in a fleet of five shiny new Hummers.

Police Assistant Commissioner Gary Jamieson says,

The idea of going to Hummers is that it’s about trying to measure visible impact. So we’ve got to try and introduce something which might look different to our current fleet of vehicles.

Visible impact, how about environmental impact?

The SS Commodore gets around 9 km/litre while the Hummer 3 gets an environmentally friendly 5.9 km/litre.

Now I know I don’t have all the facts. I’m sure the Hummers ordered by the Vic Police are specialy made to be kind to the earth while looking mean to scare the drunks. It’s not like boozed up, testosterone fuelled blokes generally like big cars or anything.

]]> http://www.vastneonwolf.net/2008/09/08/vic-police-do-thier-part-for-global-warming/feed/ 0