 April 2008 saw another sharp drop in vehicle miles traveled according to the Federal Highway Administration's monthly report on "Traffic Volume Trends." This follows "the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history" in March.
This is not surprising at all I am sure. As far as I am concerned it is only a matter of time before businesses begin adopting more telecommuting opportunities just to be able to retain and hire new employees.
So I think it is HILARIOUS to read the oh-so-clever observation from our brilliant media reports: "Observers surmise a possible link between the declining number of miles driven and rising US gasoline prices."
ROFL!
Congratulations to those reporters who clearly received their journalism degrees from the University of the Obvious!
Anyway, the specific stats are as follows: "U.S. driving went down 4.5 billion miles in April."
And in other far more interesting news we have the new nightclub in the UK which is powered by dance floor energy!
Mr Charalambous, the head of a new climate change organisation called Club4Climate, said he hoped to use clubbing to inspire young people to tackle global warming.
"This is a new way to draw in the young generation," he said.
"It's a sexy and fresh approach as opposed to the way young people feel they are preached to by other more 'grown-up' charities.
"Our aim in opening the country's first ecological club is to get as many people as possible involved in saving their world.
"There is no greater platform than clubbing to reach out to young people. Having an energy-generating dance floor is a very exciting and interesting-idea that we have been talking to people in Rotterdam about. Such a dance floor could generate about 60 per cent of the building's energy."
There are batteries in the dance floor and they are constantly recharged by the movement from people dancing. Personally, I think, this is the most awesome contribution to storing energy ever!
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