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thats great infomation mazz,
learning all the time,
it just seems to me it has all been a deliberate manipulation of technology to keep us all tied to oil companies.
some of the cars coming online next 2 years, and i can tell ya, huge amount of people |
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Good point mazz.
Sydney > Bendigo, 4 adults + box trailer (1800km round trip).
Subaru Liberty (2.5L) used 15L/100km average.
VE Commodore V6 used 10.9L/100km average.
You cant beat the big aussie 6 for long distance economy.
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Another example i have is i car pool to work doing 130kms return everyday in my VT V6 sedan with 4 adults.So approx 650km a week averageing at worst 9.5lt/100km in my "gas guzzling" big aussie car.
My brother went overseas for 2 weeks and lent me his M
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yeah but if you really want to be green you drive old cars as it takes more green house gases to produce
a new car than a old one uses in its lifetime
but then this opens up another can of worms
ve commodore 200000 cfs of gh gas to produce
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lifespan might b wrong but ......
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at least older cars had more metal ie: metal bumpers that are more useful to recycle.
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you hit it right on the head munro!!!
cost of production, transport,adds up,
for instance, it takes 25years to get the green house gases, back, from building a nuclea power plant, before you even save one molecule of ghg,
this is without cost of stora |
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QUOTE OF THE DAY= "WASTE OF MY TAX PAYER DOLLARS"...no disrespect ,but when have they not wasted tax dollars?they keep building new stadiums for sports $100 mill here $100 mill there..then 2 years later rebuild again,what the first build didnt work?..they |
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The car industry is Australia`s second biggest industry, not saving it would cost more tax payers money with unemployment of over 8000 people and thats just Holdens and suppliers not ford.
Its a positive step forward, as jim said we do not need new stadi
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OK Cloudy,but how long do I have to keep giving my hard earned TAX dollars to an industry that is obviously failing?How long do we keep proping the car makers up?
For a start I dont buy new cars(cant afford the depreciation).
Also during my working
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singapore surrivies without a car industry
but there import duties are astronomicial
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Well this New Years eve fireworks display will cost 5 million in Sydney alone. If this Government was serious about Greenhouse gases, then they would be more interested in investing that money into reducing carbon waste, and taking some of the load off ta
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such good input from all, to do with our favorite industry, car,s!!
all i am saying is,,
why give millions to car industry to get left behind,,
and if they do go ahead with their plan, when most people will buy elec?compressed air/ combinations, then |
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quote:
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such good input from all, to do with our favorite industry, car,s!!
all i am say
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Well that didnt work very well......I am totally retarded when it comes to computers..............its the missus BCB........its always the missuss fault!!!!!!!
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And another thing.........these are big american and japanese companies were pouring our money into!!!
They are trying to justify their exsistance on the fact that their Aussie ICONS so they are madly tugging away at our heart strings.
I cant but fe
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well tex, at least you got a missus!!! no one will have me!!! i tried and tried,, everything>>>>>kidnapping, extortion, bribery, blackmail, they always left me for younger men!!! which is fine,,, so long as they dont leave me for older Edited by user Monday, 29 December 2008 2:24:16 AM(UTC)
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I got rid of my missus. When the 186 blew up in the ute, she turned around and said
Ahhh good, does this mean we can get rid of it now?
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quote:
Originally posted by Tex Scrotum rides again
And another thing.........these are big american and japanese companies we
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hey mazz,,
valid points,,
but if one were to looky a tadd further into it all,,the industry started in aus, purely for this reason,, to create industry, simply for the sake of saying look, we as a nation can make a car!!
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