Sheesh, am a skinny little basket(case).
Prefer "wiry" as a description .. but what the heck. Can't help it, was born that way. Doesn't matter what, or how much i eat or drink, or how little. Does colour my viewpoint about the physical shapes of other people .. but have no real interest whatsoever in trying to change it (or them).
Apparently, at the moment, we have a Senate enquiry into obesity (WT has a look at it), and swearing (the visit of a "celebrity" chef) .. sheesh.
Don't really care whether liposuction is the new black, or Obi1thousand-and2 sits in a cave shouting Fuck! a lot.
Let's get one thing clear in the collective consciousness.
PETROL WILL NOT GET CHEAPER!
(Getup! campaign)
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yer, i know .. this discussion has been around for the past 30 years or so.
Am not Rupert "bread and circuses" Murdoch.
.. but if you haven't yet try
Who killed the electric car
and
Home built hybrid.
We can put some clown on the moon, but we can't figure out a better (cheaper) way to propel our vehicles.
That's true Davo, but thankfully lithium-ion batteries (specifically lithium iron phosphate) are getting cheaper. The delicious irony here is that Chevron will stand to miss out alltogether as we by and large skip over nickel metal hydride batteries (thanks to an absence of large capacity cells due to their patent sitting) and go straight to lithium.
Of course the money they've missed out from Ni-mh battery sales pales into insignificance when you consider the nearly incomprehensible amounts of money they're making from Texas Tea right now. I think we're really going to regret the wholesale neglect/destruction of the railways.
Hello lemmiwinks, welcome to my madness. Glad to see that you are recovering and no, can't give any suggestions as to how to carry a cup of tea while on crutches.
The thing that astonishes - also appals - me is that the transportation problem has been looming for quite some time, but we all seem to prefer to live in some sort of self indulgent coma, a Disney fantasyland of comfort and success, perhaps.
Various fuels have been tried with various degrees of success, but still can't figure out why "autogas" vehicles were never designed to run on LNG ("natural" gas, which we have plenty of) instead of LPG - which is a petroleum by-product, and will also become prohibitively expensive then disappear when the oil runs out.
One of the reasons, perhaps, for the popularity of diesel motors which can, at a pinch, be made to run on cooking oil (canola, etc.).
As to the "locally" made hybrid Commodore, can only blame the previous Gummint for not pushing that particular barrow - tho hybrids will always be an "interim" measure.
And again, can only be flabbergasted by the previous decision of the Mitsubishi auto plant at Tonsley Park to concentrate on the production of - yet another - 8 cylinder gas guzzler. Am not surprised that they went broke recently and had to close down.
There is much to say about all of this .. am mostly disgusted.
Hi Davo,
Been lurking here for a while, following your adventures with interest since I stumbled upon your part of the web from Gerrys blog. I have temporarily overcome the tea crisis by pressing the wheelchair back into service as the occasion demands ;-)
I too wonder why our gas vehicle fleet is running on LPG instead of CNG (which we are selling by the boatload to India, China, Italy, USA etc) and have in abundance. The 7:30 report had a very interesting story on this subject a while back, and it was strongly suggested that no small part of the apathy towards CNG as a fuel had to do with the fact that if your house was hooked up for heating, cooking, hot water, then one would only need a small compressor and the appropriate fittings to fill one's car up at home. The gumbymint would thus miss out on it's precious fuel excise. I think the same argument can be applied to the electric car, in which case it is even worse since you might be able to produce your own "fuel" from house mounted solar panels!
Whilst peak oil is inevitable (it's just a question of when, not if) I saw a very interesting interview on Dateline today with former Saudi Arabian oil minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani. He blames the futures market and oil speculators more than anything else. I like this quote from him (though not from the Dateline interview): "The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil."
I hope he's right on that count, though he is completely wrong with his comment in the Dateline interview about hydrogen as a fuel.
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