Posts by Gary Young
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Hard News: Cranks, self-seekers and the mayor, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Sigh. What do these people want?
I'm not convinced that they actually want anything. If you pressed them I suspect they would have difficulty articulating any clear need or vision.
I believe the lives and aspirations of protesters such as these are defined entirely by what they don't want.
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Hard News: Big Friday Music: Counting…, in reply to Russell Brown,
At the risk of appearing a blushing innocent, why?
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Hard News: Climate, money and risk, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Because it would only make a few percent difference to our (renewable) electricity usage we SHOULD do it
Oh, ok. Agree
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Hard News: Climate, money and risk, in reply to Bart Janssen,
if all the cars (not trucks) in NZ were electric it would make only a few percent difference to our total electricity usage
It would, nonetheless, make a difference. I am uncomfortable with the argument that because an action doesn't help all that much we shouldn't bother trying it at all.
The only issue I have with electric cars is I am uncertain whether the environmental cost of making the cars and batteries is actually better than the cost of burning petrol
The environmental cost of making a car (excluding it's powerplant) would be much the same. A petrol driven car, however, consumes it's source of energy once and then dumps the residues into the environment. A battery powered car, in New Zealand at least, can run indefinitely on a sustainable and renewable energy source. The battery materials can then be recycled so the cost of mining and manufacture need only occur once.
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Hard News: The non-binary council, in reply to Stephen R,
it rather looks like the NZ Herald doesn't like Mr Brown very much
So much so that they devote the first five! pages of today's edition to this "scandal". I despair for the future of journalism in New Zealand.
Brian Rudman pretty much says all that is needed in a modest handful of paragraphs at the end of these pages. I wish we could see more of his kind in the national press.
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"but the Auckland music scene's not all intense young men with beards,"
Is the correlation between intensity and beardedness well established? I've been fuzz faced for 39 years and always considered I was rather placid. Even when young...
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Hard News: The Crazy Gang Nation, in reply to Paul Brown,
And perhaps that goes some way towards explaining why Republicans are so enraged by the concept of 'affordable' in the Affordable Care Act.
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Hard News: The Crazy Gang Nation, in reply to Russell Brown,
What Americans pay for prescription medicines is insane
Gives a worrying insight into what we will be paying for prescription medicines once Pharmac has been eviscerated by the TPP.
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Rich Lock,
Like buses
I like it! And it's made in New Zealand!
Why have we not heard much more about this vehicle? Why are the Link buses not all of this type?
Can someone please drag Auckland Transport policymakers kicking and screaming into the 21st century...
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to nzlemming,
a 100K range isn't going to get you from Wellington to Auckland
A train, on the other hand, will...
There are more ways to get around heaven and earth than just cars.