A Collection of Links to articles on Transport Environmental Issues

Transport contributes substantially to Global Warming by the amount of carbon dioxide emmitted as a result of burning fossil fuels. There are a number of ways to combat this, both now and in the future, such as in the (incomplete) list below:

• Encouraging the use of bicycles for short distance journeys.
• Replacing fossil fuels by renewable fuels, eg. alcohol from (non fossil) plant material.
• Making combustion engines more efficient.
• Only using combustion engines that are large enough for the task in hand and no larger.
• Reducing the weight of vehicles.
• Reducing speeds (which will improve safety).
• The use of electric propulsion. Electric motors are much more efficient than any combustion motor.
• Greater use of public transport - which means that public transport will need substantial improvements.
• Greater use of rail transport to replace road bulk transport (road trucks)

The Blue Mountains Sustainable Transport Alliance have further ideas which apply especially to our area of the Blue Mountains.

The BMCS opposes the proposed Mount Victoria - River Lett Hill Bypass which will threaten the Newnes Plateau in many ways.

Read about advanced internal-combustion, electric and other vehicles - which will all help to alleviate the Greenhouse Effect - below:

• The advanced Hypercar Concept
• List and links to present electric cars in production.
• The Reva (GWiz) Electric Car which the Australian Government will not approve for use in this Country.
• The GWiz Electric Car which is very popular in the United Kingdom.
• A cheap-to-run and pollution-free car suitable for local travel powered by compressed air
• Read about Energy and Transport subsidies in Australia

The Solar Shop in Adelaide [(08) 8362 9992] is trying to import the GWiz (locally known as the Reva) electric car. This small business needs help to overcome Federal Government bureaucracy !