G-Wiz drivers smiling as refinery strike limits British gas
Drivers of the much-maligned Reva G Wiz, the all-electric quadricycle, have reason to smile this morning as they pass by filling stations with long queues and rationed supplies. The reason for the mayhem can be traced directly to an upcoming two-day walk out by 1,200 employees at Britain's third largest refinery at Grangemouth. Ineos, the refinery owner, has made changes to its worker's pension arrangement which would appear to be unacceptable to the Unite union and negotiations have failed to halt the shutting down of some of it's production in preparation for the labor action.
The results of the disagreement are more wide-ranging than just two days of reduced supply. It takes time for a facility of that nature to return to its previous capacity so the effects might be felt for up to three weeks. BP's Forties pipeline may also have to be shut down because of the walk-out which could cost the companies and the government each £25 million a day. Although motoring organizations had advised motorist not to "panic-buy", supplies at many Edinburgh gas stations were getting low and one had already gone dry, according to an article in the Guardian.
[Source: Guardian]
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Lad 4:11PM (4/25/2008)
I imagine this gives us all a "heads up" on what happens when the gasoline supply is interrupted. It could really become a problem if our foreign oil supply were to be cut off.
I'll bet a lot of people in the UK were giving BEVs a thought today.
Let's all move to Solar Power and EVs!
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TheRookie 4:11PM (4/25/2008)
G-Wiz in Scotland??? Now that's news worth mentioning :) How can owner service it if, according to Reva, it need to be serviced every 6 months / 4,000 miles and there are no service centers outside of London.
http://www.goingreen.co.uk/store/content/gwiz_faq/#exuk
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A.Brien 4:13PM (4/25/2008)
I prefer a small motorcycle then a g-wiz. But i live in canada where it's winter with snow for almost 6 months a year. If we were intelligent which is not at all we will be powering cars and trucks with natural gas which is plentiful in canada and we will clean the sewage water with the machine invented by the segway guy. Instead harper the prime minister in canada is following the policy of united state with increased military expences and investment in food fuel (ethanol made from corn) and in my province they just double the fees for the driving license and registration, 200$ instead of 90$ for the driving license and 667$ instead of 320$ for the registration of the vehicule and some other fees too like double price if you got a ticket. All that when some have invented recently how to use hydrogen as a free fuel without pollution.
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GoodCheer 6:05PM (4/25/2008)
I'm going to guess that this gasoline shortage will do more for the electric car sales than all the environmental good-will and congestion charges put together.
As someone who bikes to work (I buy gas about once every 6 weeks), I think that this is great news for the long-run evolution of personal transportation.
If the same kind of thing happened in CA after a couple hundred Apteras and Teslas are in customers' hands the game could be changed forever.
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raju 2:17PM (4/26/2008)
G-Whiz, an electric car is from the house of Maini REVA. It is the only electric car that forays the Indian roads. I read a blog ‘how Reva shine in Britain”. Eco-friendly guys there will definitely like it.
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