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From: D Walford on 6 Jan 2010 03:09 Fran wrote: > On Jan 6, 9:46 am, "Milton" <millam...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> "John_H" <john4...(a)inbox.com> wrote in message >> >> news:7qo5k59nkuhu06re9ojolvjkvdsu1suikd(a)4ax.com... >> >>> Sunny wrote: >>>> "Noddy" <m...(a)home.com> wrote in message >>>> news:4b42a411$0$66493$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net... >>>>> "Fran" <fran.b...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>>>> news:42baf50b-1c00-4a42-899d-7014e3609473(a)b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com... >>>>>> Let's hope so. I'd prefer it to be a lot more but I'll take six cents >>>>>> as a start. >>>>> Why? >>>> It's watermelon speak, for "all walk or ride a horse." >>> -- >>> John H >> I'd say more like "weird"?? What a stupid thing to say! Maybe she is >> actually a Sheik?? > > What do you suppose would happen to vehicle miles (and the composition > of the vehicle fleet) in Australia if the price of petrol went up and > stayed up by, say, 50 cents per litre? > Not a lot, the demand for increased wages followed by an increase in the price of everything wouldn't be a good thing though. Daryl
From: jonz on 6 Jan 2010 03:29 On 1/6/2010 7:09 PM, D Walford wrote: > Fran wrote: >> On Jan 6, 9:46 am, "Milton" <millam...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> "John_H" <john4...(a)inbox.com> wrote in message >>> >>> news:7qo5k59nkuhu06re9ojolvjkvdsu1suikd(a)4ax.com... >>> >>>> Sunny wrote: >>>>> "Noddy" <m...(a)home.com> wrote in message >>>>> news:4b42a411$0$66493$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net... >>>>>> "Fran" <fran.b...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>>>>> news:42baf50b-1c00-4a42-899d-7014e3609473(a)b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com... >>>>>> >>>>>>> Let's hope so. I'd prefer it to be a lot more but I'll take six >>>>>>> cents >>>>>>> as a start. >>>>>> Why? >>>>> It's watermelon speak, for "all walk or ride a horse." >>>> -- >>>> John H >>> I'd say more like "weird"?? What a stupid thing to say! Maybe she is >>> actually a Sheik?? >> >> What do you suppose would happen to vehicle miles (and the composition >> of the vehicle fleet) in Australia if the price of petrol went up and >> stayed up by, say, 50 cents per litre? >> > > Not a lot, the demand for increased wages followed by an increase in the > price of everything wouldn't be a good thing though. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ yeah.....capitalism,.......aint it great?? > > > Daryl -- jonz "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene Spafford,1992
From: G-S on 6 Jan 2010 05:00 Fran wrote: > > What do you suppose would happen to vehicle miles (and the composition > of the vehicle fleet) in Australia if the price of petrol went up and > stayed up by, say, 50 cents per litre? > Initially? Not much... most people are fairly locked into their existing vehicles. I'd expect a decrease in use, an increase in car pooling, public transport, motor scooters, push bikes and walking. In the medium term I'd expect a moderate increase in the sales of small and medium cars and in sales of LPG and diesel vehicles. To create a large change you'd have to double or triple the price of petrol. G-S
From: Noddy on 6 Jan 2010 07:08 "Fran" <fran.beta(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:c5e96758-e9fa-4d44-8bd3-ecc3ecb3aed3(a)a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com... > Well if I'd said that people would have accused me of flaming Noddy ... I really don't think so Fran, but anyway. > I don't believe he's as thick as you imply. But thick nonetheless. Kind of amusing really coming from someone who thinks charging people three bucks a litre for petrol to fund mutli level car parks in residential areas beside freeways and high density inner city housing is a good idea. -- Regards, Noddy.
From: Noddy on 6 Jan 2010 07:11
"G-S" <geoff(a)castbus.com.au> wrote in message news:00cde36d$0$15650$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > To create a large change you'd have to double or triple the price of > petrol. That'd certainly bring about change, but whether it was good or bad is highly debatable :) -- Regards, Noddy. |