Marty_d

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-16/how-much-might-it-cost-to-electrify-road-freight/106956614

We bought our MGS5 a month ago and have done 2000km. We just plug it in to a standard power point when it's parked at home. We have solar on the roof, and when it's charging at night Tassie uses hydro power. That 2000km represents about 3 tank fulls of diesel in our previous car, or about 165 litres (at current price around $430). For comparison the EV gets around 16kW/100k so 320kW. Even if we weren't using solar and paying full price (23c/kWh), that's about $74 for the same range. (If my calculations are correct!)

Well, one of his policies was not to take 5 million pound bribes from billionaires, so he's already better than Farage.

I am so glad we have compulsory voting here. One of the best features of our electoral system.

Possibly unpopular with clothed people too 😊

If only Binface had won. That would have been so good.

Adding the words "at Scrabble" to the end completely changes the question too.

Nope - from the raincoat.

Under $1000 a year? I wouldn't be complaining about that. Ours is somewhere around $1500 with no water, sewage or rubbish collection. Not sure what cockatoos have to do with your rates. @willedoo- your council sounds like a pack of useless c**ts. My sympathy.

I call BS on that. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Takes a grubby type to destroy the only worldly possessions of people with nothing.

Not around here. We don't even have that many smart people, let alone meters.

I dunno. I was happy enough to tick "no religion", I didn't care that they didn't break that down into "agnostic", "never thought about it", "atheist", or "cult survivor atheist".

That one's been around for a while. Doesn't make it any less true.

I'm a little surprised at 1820's spike in the "unprecedented" graph. Whenever I've read or heard the use in a historical context it has been "without precedent", not "unprecedented".