Today the oil price hit $96 per barrel!
Read more at the BBC News website and my comment on Monday about hitting the $90 mark.
Good job I filled the non-bioethanol car up this morning!
Go-cart track running on bio-ethanol
November 1, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The site duomotori.com reported recently about a go-cart track in Germany, that has converted its cars to run on bio-ethanol. They are also using the E85-variant and claim that this improves the performance of the carts by 20%.
It is also interesting that some of the driving championships are planning to use bio-ethanol in the forthcoming season.
Read the original article in German here.
Camel rides at Timanfaya
October 31, 2007 By 6 Comments
Anyone who has been to Lanzarote will probably be able to tell you about the camel rides. They may not have ridden one themselves, but they may have seen them. At the very least they will have heard about them.
The camels take tourists on rides around Timanfaya, the national park with the main volcano located in it. If you have the use of a car, then it is possible to drive to their site and hire a ride locally. Most, however, will have booked a package which includes transport to the site and the ride itself.
Each camel can carry two people – seated one on either side. Once all the camels are loaded up, they stand up in a row and walk off up the mountain.
The camels used to be used on the islands for agriculture and for transport – being suited to the local lack of fresh water on the island. Today they may “only” be used by tourists, but they provide an ecologically-friendly way of seeing the centre of the national park.
