Friday, January 13, 2012
Special motoring treatment for Olympic VIPs
It seems like only yesterday that Britain was awarded the Olympic games and yet here we are in 2012, the big year.
Usain Bolt is preparing to give us a special show on the track, Becky Adlington is readying herself for a showdown in the pool, and the environmentalists are getting hot under the collar over the announcement that Olympic VIPs will be ferried bout in BMW's.
Less might have been made about this final point had the event organisers not claimed that these would be the greenest games ever.
However, the London Organising Committee has opened itself up for criticism by subsequently declaring that the luxury, gas guzzling vehicles are to be used as taxis for the elite.
A key member of the London Assembly Transport Committee said, “As we were promised that the 2012 Games would be the greenest Olympics ever to take place, only electric vehicles should have been considered.
“The 2012 Games should have been a big boost to the growth of electric vehicles in the UK, but instead we have vehicles which merely add to London’s serious air pollution.”
The question of whether Olympic dignitaries would happily be driven about in electric cars such as the Toyota Prius or Nissan Leaf is open to debate.
Image © Roebot via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: London, Nissan Leaf, Olympic games, taxis, Toyota Prius
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posted by Fuse @ 1:08 AM 
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