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ben87r

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  1. When I lived in Canada it worked very well indeed, but to be honest that was mainly due to the amount of homeless. I always took my bottles back to the bottle shop for a refund there one because it was easy as I was already going there, secondly because of my outrage of paying C$50ish for a cartoon of beer in the mid 2000's I wanted every cent returned....

     

    When I was living in "Sunny" SA, we never did it once mainly because I had no idea where to take them and the local bottlo certainly did not accept their return so we used to throw them in the yellow bin. What I did see was this little Asian fella, (I was living in the northern suburbs) who was apparently retired and a pensioner going around and collecting bottles that people had put beside the bin for him on his morning walk, he was fairly well know for doing it and we started doing the same. The fella would have been the best part of 100 years old and kept him fit as and topped up his pension!

     

     

  2. There's no denying that a diesel engine will give better fuel consumption figures than a petrol one but spacer.png. I was talking about 91 octane E10 -v- pure 91 octane.

    I suppose there is the problem of sourcing pure 91 octane. You really have to scout around for it. Shell and BP don't seem to carry it. Woolworths/Caltex carries it in a few locations. 7/11 seems to have, as do the independents.

     

    That's an interesting comment of Downunder's regarding poor economy on the higher octanes. It suggests that the higher octane fuels have a slower moving flame front, and the stroke of the Getz engine is too short to enable a full burn of the charge. (Don't forget that the power stroke of an engine is not "bang". It is "burn": Suck; Squeeze; Burn; Blow. If you are getting "Bang" you are getting detonation.)

     

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    On my current petrol vehicle I haven't done enough long drives on tar to worry about it, i've done 40k in it and ild guess at 35k being 4x4ing. In my previous vehicles and company vehicles that I owned, it was only 95+ as i had calculated it to be a few % total saving and on average 10-15% extra km per tank of motion lotion. That was for highway k's and around town was 50-50 as to whether there was any saving but worst case was no saving, no extra cost. Only vehicle ive used that wasn't effective was a 4cyl 2wd hilux.

     

     

  3. I agree with the above. Most of the boys I knew who liked a drink were too interested in getting to the pub for a schooner and a punt to worry about anything else. The ones who ended up in trouble weren't drinkers mostly.

     

     

  4. They were long time drug dealers and users before they got arrested and were part of a fair size drug syndicate. They were not innocent one time offending drug mules which may have had some of my sympathy

     

     

  5. Yep that's the one!! I we had a team of chippys there doing all sorts of strange and wonderful things, best part was the monkey enclosure, we had 100' (maybe 120') boomb lifts there to apply the mesh across the tops but when used for height alone you got a pretty special view, Taronga has to be in one of the best locations in the city! Sure was a decent time getting to see al the different types of wildlife, some in cages, some just strolling by!

     

    Got any photos? Was that for the Asian elephants as well do you know?

     

     

  6. Conservative politics now relies almost entirely on a base of middle aged white guys. Conservative ideas just not that popular any more

    Only based on my observations but I couldn't disagree more, out of my social group my friends in the 20's nearly all are on the conservative side, friends in the 30's-40's much more split. My thoughts behind it being the different stages of life, pepole in their late 20's mostly don't care about hospital funding, schooling (assuming that they have already studied) and other similar stuff, they care about the economy, getting a better job and a better start in life. And conservative ideas were pretty popular when ALP governments got thrown out all across the country only a few years back.

     

    I still believe the issues at the moment is that they are all rubbish. My vote will always be able to be brought for the price of a department/ minister of aviation!

     

     

  7. Once again I think the issue is, Newman had to go and no credible other option, similar to the fed situation. Still not happy tho. Last thing QLD needed or could afford was more ALP government. I could tell along time ago that this result was a possibility,surely Newman could have done something to turn it around.

     

    It may be historic, but so is the titanic.

     

     

  8. I was listening to the radio today, it rated 54% in Sydney and 51% in Brisbane, so more than half the population would disagree with us.

    And the others watched it at the pub, apart from the fellas above that is

     

     

  9. How do you show the public the effect of the tax? I'm still completely blind as to the effect it will have on my business but know that it is going to effect about 90% of my costs and will further increase when diesel if taxed in 2014. I think that i will have to increase prices a few times between now and then when i realize the full effect of the tax. I think this will be the same with allot if not most small business that don't have the resources to study the whole effect of the tax

     

     

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