Posts by Mark Thomas
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We need to move away from weather board homes and use whole logs as Mark mentioned above.
that's not quite what i meant... modern timber framing is less wasteful than the ol' log cabin
The market can't solve everything or in my opinion anything.
that's a bit pessimistic. witness what high fuel prices will do to the sales of scooters and bus & train tickets
but i do agree with you about reduction of waste. that cranky dog & lemon guy had it right
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RE: pine trees
correct me if I'm wrong, but if you cut down the pine trees before they rot, all that atmospheric carbon is turned into timber. Which doesn't get released back into the atmosphere, unless you've got a leaky home and your house rots.
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...all of the Bollard anecdotes are guaranteed to be 100 per cent true. However, I will concede that this figure represents an average of trueness over the whole anecdote. While some parts (such as the description of Canberra) are up to 900 per cent true, other parts (such as arrival by plane vs. say, driving from Sydney) are only 2-3 per cent true. Overall, though, the average trueness is never less than 100 per cent.
You're a genius, David.
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vaguely related to NZ/oz relations...
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mmmm, bit torrent cloud. now we're talking
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How much of the RUC take actually goes to better roads, and how much goes to other things? My understanding is that transport tax stays in the transport area, but as far as I can tell it doesn't mean that it gets spent on roading.
http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/funding/nltp/funding.html
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i found this... looks like the road user charges come to about $793M, fuel excise comes to $774M, state highway maintenance costs $1018M, local road maintenance costs $633. That makes an $84M shortfall, which the 10%(?) road user charge increase would cover quite nicely
</amateur calculations>http://www.publicaddress.net/system/topic,1205,hard_news_truck_off_etc.sm?p=57338#post57338
http://www.publicaddress.net/system/topic,1207,hard_news_the_mood.sm?p=57614#post57614 -
A logical view point if times are tough might in fact be to say, lets subsidise them on this, because that way at least we aren't any further out of pocket than we are at present.
alternatively, you could say that the things that damage roads (heavy trucks) should pay for their upkeep. At least when road taxes cause prices to go up, the prices are an indicator of the cost of road transport. Subsidies would have hidden that cost.
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how about
6) after nine years of any government, we're bound to want a change
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impoverished middle class
we're not quite there yet
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wonderful writing david