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Carbon dioxide emissions -- some facts...

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One cow belching and farting produces as much global warming effect as twenty four historic cars do in a year, or a Ford Mondeo 2L petrol over 26,651 km, or a Rolls Royce Phantom over 13,369 km.

One historic car = 210 kg/year of CO₂.   One cow: 213^B kg methane/year = 5037^C kg of CO₂ /year  (the equivalent of two month’s heating for an average house)  (updated 20 January 2010)

There are 6,700,000^A cattle in Ireland.  They produce up to 500^B litres of methane per day per animal --- that’s 1,467,300 tonnes of methane per year.  Methane has a global warming effect 23^C times greater than carbon dioxide, so the CO₂ equivalent to this amount of methane is 33,747,900 tonnes.  A Rolls Royce Phantom produces 377 g/km of CO₂, so for an average of 16,000 km driving per annum this comes to 6.03 tonnes. If all owners of private motor vehicles --- a total of 1,963,690^D cars and motorcycles ---- each drove a leviathan of a car such as a Rolls Royce Phantom (377^E g/km CO2) then we would produce 11,844,978 tonnes of CO₂ per year.  That is just over a THIRD of the global warming effect of the belching and farting of the nation’s cattle.   One cow =   13,369 km in a RR Phantom OR 26,651 km in a Ford Mondeo 2L petrol (189^E g/km of CO₂)

 Sources:-  A: CSO;   B: Journal of Animal Science, 1995, Aug, 73(8):248393, KA Johnson, DE Johnson, Washington State University.     C: Irish Times Motoring Supplement 4th November 2009, referencing Walsh et al (University of Limerick), Climate Care, carbonica.org    D: 2008 DoE Bulletin    E: www.energy.eu

The Minister for Transport has legislated (SI 567, 2009) that from the 4th of January 2010 privately taxed vehicles first registered before the 1st of January 1980 are exempt from the NCT.  This category excludes vehicles taxed as public service vehicles such as wedding hire cars, taxis, and etc, and these will, as at present, continue to be required to have a valid NCT.  This means that vehicles first registered after that date WILL require a biennial NCT.

  You can download the legislation by clicking on either button below --- one gives a zipped file (about 400kB).  The other button gives a .pdf file that is large (14MB), and will take a long time to download unless you have broadband.

                                    
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 to 1984.  The IVVCC is the Irish representative body for FIVA.

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The Irish Veteran and Vintage Car Club Limited was formed in 1963 to cater for owners of veteran and vintage vehicles and for enthusiasts who did not possess such vehicles. Vehicles catered for by the IVVCC now include post-vintage and classic cars. Cars are divided into the following classes:- 

• Antique: pre 1905

• Veteran: 1905-1918

• Vintage: 1919-1930

• Post Vintage: 1931 – 1945

• Classic 1946 – 1984*

*FIVA has adopted a thirty year minimum age for the definition of an historic car from January 1st 2010.  The IVVCC has decided to adopt this in a modified form to avoid exclusion of owners of cars that are currently over twenty five years old but not yet thirty.  The IVVCC has adopted a cut-off date of 31st December 1984 which will remain in place until 31st December 2014, after which the thirty year rule will apply on a rolling basis (or whatever later rule supersedes it, if any).     

The club organises rallies, monthly meetings, picnics and outings as well as publishing a quarterly journal giving club news, details of vehicles for sale, information on vehicle restoration and articles of general interest. Various club sections run events especially suited to their own interests and section are usually included in club rallies to cater for these various sections.