Oop to Yoksher over the weekend to meet up with my colleagues from the Northern group of Motoring Writers.
It was a double booking, words of wisdom on saving money and the polar bears with a new eco tyre and at the other extreme enjoying the new VW Sirocco, not only bringing back fond memories of the original but also introducing a soothing warm wind to Warfdale.
More on the car some other time. First the tyres.
Michelin are making this shoe with a view to reducing tyre wear, using less juice and as a result pulling some models that fit it from new into lower tax bands.
Independent tests have shown the new tyre to be just about best at everything. It is also most expensive by about a tenner but should return the favour over its lifetime.
The think is that typically you will save around £130 over twenty-odd thousand miles. Not exactly the stuff to send drivers scurrying to Rubber Is Us.
What I found interesting was one of the ways old tyres are disposed of.
One company is firing cement kilns with old tyres, at a temperature so high there is little or no problem with emissions.
Making me wonder why similar usage is not possible at the Drax power station? It seems to be an excellent idea.Or is it politically not so expedient as making bouncy surfaces for children's playgrounds?
In the US they chain waste tyres together and dump them offshore, making huge artificial reef systems that attract sport fish.
That's something else that has never been on the radar here.
Never mind, when we are all hobbling from hovel to hovel, our feet wrapped in rags, cloaked in copes of the Financial Times it won't matter.
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