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Volkswagen Lupo USA: "What is Lupo?

In Europe they call it the '3-liter' car. The Volkswagen Lupo can travel 100 kilometers on three liters of diesel or bio-diesel. This translates to 78 miles per gallon, on average, under stringent German measurement standards. A test Lupo circumnavigated the globe in 80 days, averaging 99 miles per gallon of fuel.
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World 'appeasing' climate threat

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | World 'appeasing' climate threat: "One of the UK's best-known scientists, Professor James Lovelock, says only a catastrophe will prompt the world to tackle the threat of climate change.

He says the global climate treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, is simply an attempt to appease a self-regulating Earth system.

Professor Lovelock thinks the Earth's attempts to restore its equilibrium may eliminate civilisation and most humans.

He wants a rapid end to the destruction of natural habitats, which he says are key to planetary climate and chemistry.

Professor Lovelock won acclaim for developing the Gaia Hypothesis, which suggests the Earth functions as a single organism which maintains the conditions necessary for its survival.

His latest comments were made at a conference at Dartington Hall in Devon. He told a collection of scientists, civil servants and others concerned about climate change of his concern at the prospect facing the Earth.

Professor Lovelock said: 'In the late 1930s when I was a student we knew that war was imminent, but there was no clear idea of what to do about it.

Future fears

'I find a marked similarity between attitudes over 60 years ago and those now towards the threat of global [climate] change.

'Most of us think that something unpleasant may soon happen but we are as confused over what to do about it as we were in 1938.

'Our response so far is just like that in 1938, an attempt to appease. The Kyoto agreement is uncannily like that of Munich, with politicians out to show that they do respond but in reality are bidding for time.'

Professor Lovelock said global warming was 'the response of our outraged planet', and the consequences for humanity were likely to be far worse than any war."
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