Letters: December 7, 2013

Green cars; vulnerable elderly; Pike River; nutrition; and Downtown Abbey.

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28th November, 2013

NOT-SO-GREEN VEHICLES The fashion is certainly to appear green (“Charge of the lite brigade”, November 23). Sadly, most of the products so described are a marketing ploy and a triumph of hope over evidence. Much of this enables us to feel better while we make no personal effort to change our lifestyles so as to leave a habitable planet for our progeny. Alternative fuels for vehicles are certainly worth pursuing, but only for commerce and public transport. They have little if any ...

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