Christian Friis Bach’s (recently appointed Minister for Development Cooperation, Denmark) electric-powered vehicle was incapable of covering the 30 kilometers from his house to the palace without running out of power. So he put the electric mini-car inside a horse trailer and dragged it behind his petrol-owned Citroen for three-quarters of the trip, switching back to the mini-car when he neared the television cameras. The stunt produced more carbon emissions than if he had ditched the electric car and horse-trailer and driven a regular car the entire distance, reports Bjorn Lomborg. (1)