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New Vans Efficiency Targets
By Elena Price
The EU has moved to cut emissions from vans by imposing new fuel efficiency targets, although campaigners remain adamant the proposed standards are not strong enough to reduce businesses’ fuel bills. Environment ministers meeting in Brussels yesterday voted for a deal to cut carbon dioxide emissions from vans by around 14% to an average of 175 grams per kilometre by 2017.
An agreement was reached after Germany, home to car giants Mercedes and Volkswagen, objected to a much tougher target of 135 grams per kilometre by 2020, put forward by the European Commission last week. Germany’s environment minister, Norbert Roettgen, hailed the new standards as a good compromise deal.
“It achieves substantial CO2 reductions to my knowledge 27%. It is feasible, it is a technological challenge, but it keeps us in a leadership position.”
EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard similarly welcomed the deal, hailing the new rules as “an important step forward in curbing transport emissions”. However, green campaigners felt that given the significant efficiency improvements manufacturers have made in recent years, the watered down target will put little pressure on car firms to step up fuel efficiency efforts.
“The industry said it couldn’t make a 14% improvement in van efficiency over nine years, meanwhile, it managed to improve car efficiency at more than three times that rate last year. Policymakers must to a better job of holding the industry to account when it makes such claims.”
The year in Film: 2010
Yes folks, it’s getting to that time of year again where you can expect to see millions of videos summing up the year that has passed us from everything to music to moustaches. The first one to spread like wildfire across the web this year is Filmography 2010, a montage of some of the bet movie moments of the year.
It has certainly been an amazing year for movies, with films like Inception, Social Network and Scot Pilgrim vs The World breaking the usual barriers of cinema. There is certainly a lot of new DVD releases to choose from this Christmas. But my personal favourite film of the year has to go the hugely controversial “Four Lions“. It is absolutely bang on the money. Hilariously funny yet horrendously poignant at the same time. This film dances mockingly with the most serious of subjects, yet is never unfairly portrays anyone.
How Car Insurance Prices Work
In my usual trawl for useful and interesting things on the interwebs I came across this breakdown of how car insurance prices are calculated from confused.com. It’s nicely all in pictures, everyone love pictures cus they are nice and easy to understand. So lets take a look.
As you can see there are many factors that come into account when calculating a car insurance premium. Age is perhaps the biggest factor in how much you pay. But also surprisingly is your gender.
Women pay much less on their premium than men, as they are judged to be at a lower risk of being in an accident. If you are in your teens you can also expect to pay a mighty sum for your car insurance for a good few years. Older drivers have much cheaper premiums.
Where you live also plays a big part in how much your premium will be. North London is the most costly location to insure a car along with Northern Ireland and North East England. The cheapest locations are South West England and Scotland. Generally the more rural areas are cheaper than Urban ones.
Your occupation also makes a difference on your premium, especially if you use your car for work. However if you do a job with late working hours, you may be more inclined to get a discount for using the roads when they are quieter. If you do a job where you might mix with the rich an famous then your premium is likely to increase further. Teachers, police and solicitors are likely to have cheaper premiums.
Other things that will effect the cost include the length you have held you licence, if you have any previous motoring convictions, the vehicle type and age, no claims bonus and your yearly mileage.
So what’s the best and worse case scenarios for car insurance cost? The Best: An old female teacher living in the south west of England, with a small older car and low annual mileage. The worst: A 17 year old male that works with celebrities, drives a expensive new sports car and lives in London.
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