DO YOU get chauffeured to school in mum or dad's massive lump of four-wheel-drive urban assault vehicle? There's a fair possibility as Aberdeen is stuffed with such vehicles. Or is the mode of transportation more responsible - a small hatchback perhaps? It seems blindly obvious, but the best way to reduce emissions in the short term is a "drastic downscaling of both size and weight' of conventional petrol and diesel cars", according to an Oxford University study.
The price of donkeys in the Yozgat district of Central Turkey has increased sevenfold as local people are giving up the use of tractors because of rocketing fuel prices and substituting them with a centuries-old means of getting about.
