Energy crisis.

[joe-90]

Most of it is already uninhabited.

I think thats it people only see the " neighbours " sde of Australia the rest of it looks like a right hole and will get worse.

I hitchkicked round Australia as a 16 year old and lived there for 15 years. Have you seen much of it?


joe

 

[empip]

Oz - no different to most places, I'll take you to parts of Bristol right dumps, everything is usually a compromise ... I like where the family is at, in and around Victoria, they love it ... Think I will/would too, based on my time there and their reports... Gotta follow that dream Freddie, gotta wanna really... wooHoo.

Do not be fooled concerning the Chinese, I remember the Japanese stuff in days well past, being ridiculed as rubbish, they were at the start of a journey, not languishing on past 'no-competition' products .... Who makes rubbish now then (if anything at all)?
The pace of change in manufacturing is relatively quick today, design to customer lead times ever shortening .. It will not take the Chinese too long to begin competing at all levels ..
Beware, for they are very entrepreneurial spirits, love - grafting,bargaining, SELLING, gold, gambling and most ominously their vehicles... !!

 

[Slogger]

Enjoy yourselves it is closer than you think ....

Ministerial drives to conserve energy have been fraught with difficulties. Last year the then Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt's department was pictured with its lights blazing all night after she announced a drive to encourage householders to save £1 billion a year by switching off theirs.
The latest scheme reflects a growing belief that energy targets can be met only by punitive measures. Earlier this year householders were warned that they faced a £1,000 fine for failing to recycle rubbish.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...8.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/18/ixportal.html

Notso far into the future .. this country could be modern 3rd world.
The cost of subsistence level for an individual could be onerous, this will divert funds from other projects and we all know who this will hit ... Today, may very well be the tail end of the halcyon days.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4402448.stm

if the usa and the uk was being held to ransom by any islamic state they would simply eradicate it no messing around

i for one now would fence the oil fields with a 2 mile exclusion zone ( iraq) and keep the oil for the uk and usa

might as well start as we mean to go on as if we dont we will be downtrodden in the long run

CHINA is a menace waiting to happen

 

[joe-90]

if the usa and the uk was being held to ransom by any islamic state they would simply eradicate it no messing around

And WW3 would begin.



joe

 

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Hey up, this lunch ... better be prepared, Tony baloney will not, repeat not, guarantee gas supplies to any bug#er .. in UK.

Whereas one of his handrags said here 'Lights 'won't go out' this winter' "under any scenario whatsoever", I guess that means, when the smoke clears and the mirror is polished ... dwindling stocks will be diverted to the gas fired electricity generators ..... given the length and breadth of their usual shi te ... I suppose that is precisely what they will do - run out !!

Oi, Tony never mind Eyerack or the 'EuroSnouters ball' You have been hosting ... we mostly do not give a damn.. but we do like to keep warm and cook at a reasonable cost !

 

[empip]

Hey up, this lunch ... better be prepared, Tony baloney will not, repeat not, guarantee gas supplies to any bug#er .. in UK.

Whereas one of his handrags said here 'Lights 'won't go out' this winter' "under any scenario whatsoever", I guess that means, when the smoke clears and the mirror is polished ... dwindling stocks will be diverted to the gas fired electricity generators ..... given the length and breadth of their usual shi te ... I suppose that is precisely what they will do - run out !!

Oi, Tony never mind Eyerack or the 'EuroSnouters ball' You have been hosting ... we mostly do not give a damn.. but we do like to keep warm and cook at a reasonable cost !

 

[joe-90]

The government doesn't own the World's gas supplies. The stuff is running out - better get used to it.



joe

 

[empip]

Yes but .. spending £3 or 4 billion on Iraq might have been put to better use ...
Anyway, back to Oz you, Joesyphillus, our resources are finite, we should be charging you to stay in your Queen's country !!

 

[empip]

The government doesn't own the World's gas supplies. The stuff is running out - better get used to it.

joe

....the government is vulnerable to criticism for not having done more to shore up UK storage. The UK has 13 days of gas supply, compared to around 60 in most continental countries...

hummm ! What happened to the prudent Scot, the man on the purse strings .... They are all things to all men, this Govn, until the spin wobbles to a halt and reality of inaction and lack of forthought hits home.