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...However, air-conditioning is an intensive user of energy that contributes to global warming. This week in Portland, such units were impossible to buy....
...It’s capital intensive; there is strong competition; and there are a lot of unfortunate casualties in terms of financial disasters.”...
...The worst of said tales involved me pushing two 26kg suitcases some 3km from my hotel in Florence to the train station in 39C heat because I couldn’t get a taxi....
...Ontario also reported 900 patients in intensive care, its highest figure since the start of the pandemic....
...In the telecoms industry, where workers climb up treacherous poles for inspections, drones are being deployed to assess them from the air instead....
...But the sectors using red diesel are some of the biggest contributors to our air quality problem - emitting nearly 10% of the most noxious gases polluting the air of cities like London....
...In an attempt to improve the quality of Beijing’s polluted air, the authorities are planning to mandate that every new taxi in the city must be electric or gas-fuelled, China’s National Business Daily reported...
...I take a taxi south of the city to the palatial offices of Mahathir Mohamad, the grand old man of Malaysian politics....
...As rail networks improve, it is quite normal to disembark from a smooth air-conditioned train, only to wait for a prolonged period of time for a bus or a taxi to take you home....
...providers growing fees to carry their free-to-air channels....
...“American people have the absolute right to receive over-the-air broadcast programming without any filter between them and the broadcaster,” he insists....
...Fuel subsidies also contribute to unemployment by strengthening capital-intensive industries such as petrochemicals or steel that require fewer employees; increase air pollution and cardiovascular illnesses...
...I’m halfway up a mountain in the Swiss Alps, the air is crisp and clean, and the sky is that perfect blue you only get at this sort of altitude....
...But new money seems scarce and problems have not gone away as the construction enters its most intensive phase....
...A used ‘Butterfly’ sewing machine made in China costs a mere Rp500,000, only slightly more than a one-hour, air-conditioned, round-trip taxi ride from the airport to Jakarta....
...In central and western China, taxi fleets run on natural gas instead of petrol because it is cheaper and cleaner....
...New people have access, as the number of millionaires grows visibly,” says José Eduardo Brandão, commercial director of Ocean Air Taxi Aereo, a firm that sells private planes and helicopters....
...“It only appeals to a couple of specific segments”, such as taxi fleets....
...As well as protecting themselves, this must also have contributed to the air of mystery surrounding the magazine....
...Getting around Taxis are cheap and easy to find, air conditioned in summer and heated in winter. Carry pen and paper, to scribble down the addresses of where you need to go and show them to the driver....
...In the past three months, an unamused public has learned that the wife of the Speaker spent more than £4,000 on London taxis; that MPs can claim for a stereo and air-conditioning; that they can put the cost...
...The sulphurous air around it carries the “smell of money”, in Stewart’s phrase....
...One person was in intensive care at Watford general hospital with respiratory problems....
...But she says plans are afoot to erect an outsized open-air screen for the thousands who will not get in. “The competition has grown faster than we imagined,” she says....
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