Why by a 4X4 if you don't actualy need one
May 15th 2007, 2:59 pm
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Re: Why by a 4X4 if you don't actualy need one
The Glider would be shot down over the Middle east or somewhere and this in turn would result in his blood polluting waterways.
Just get on the plane like everyone else and get down to Moorooka and buy a Prado or Pajero like the rest of us.
May 15th 2007, 3:12 pm
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Re: Why by a 4X4 if you don't actualy need one
Have you wet the bed again
May 15th 2007, 3:24 pm
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Re: Why by a 4X4 if you don't actualy need one
and i love to read the stuff all you ozzies write...
sorry for going off topic folks
p.s oh and me cat i have just booked flights for at 1500 quid is fighting in the back garden and waking all the street up!
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May 15th 2007, 4:11 pm
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Re: Why by a 4X4 if you don't actualy need one
I love 4x4s. I'll be getting a Landcruiser when I get back from my polluting trip back to the UK.
If you like exploring the outback, visiting national parks etc... a 4x4 is pretty essential.
As a previous poster said this anti 4x4 bollocks you get in the UK doesn't really happen here, well, not in Perth. There was a pathetic anti 4x4 sketch on The Chaser last week. About as funny as haemorroids.
If you like exploring the outback, visiting national parks etc... a 4x4 is pretty essential.
As a previous poster said this anti 4x4 bollocks you get in the UK doesn't really happen here, well, not in Perth. There was a pathetic anti 4x4 sketch on The Chaser last week. About as funny as haemorroids.
May 15th 2007, 4:23 pm
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May 15th 2007, 4:26 pm
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May 15th 2007, 4:30 pm
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Re: Why by a 4X4 if you don't actualy need one
Hey, no worries for me. I'm in Sydney 
Good luck with it.
Good luck with it.
May 15th 2007, 7:59 pm
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May 15th 2007, 8:22 pm
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May 15th 2007, 8:28 pm
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May 15th 2007, 9:45 pm
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Re: Why by a 4X4 if you don't actualy need one
A bus is a working vehicle and people use them to get to the local shops, work or school? Relative pollution displacement to passenger carriage is the same so do we stop public transport as well?
May 15th 2007, 10:16 pm
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Re: Why by a 4X4 if you don't actualy need one
Broadly speaking i agree with you GreenTea, but i'm afraid the human animal is a stupid bugger, and IMO the only way this global warming malarkey is going to be solved is by using up all the oil!
So, i now think that we should all be driving 4x4's and using one placcy bad per item in the supermarket. Get rid of all the oil, the human race goes a bit bananas for about 50 years, maybe throw in some resilient pestilence to spice it up, and then when the dust settles, there'll be no petrol powered cars and no plastic (other than recycled stuff).
Plus, hopefully the global population will halve (or more). Should be quite a nice place
There, that's my recipe for the future!
P.S. Is "fourby" pronounced "four-bee" or "four bye"? And is it an Ozzie-ism?
So, i now think that we should all be driving 4x4's and using one placcy bad per item in the supermarket. Get rid of all the oil, the human race goes a bit bananas for about 50 years, maybe throw in some resilient pestilence to spice it up, and then when the dust settles, there'll be no petrol powered cars and no plastic (other than recycled stuff).
Plus, hopefully the global population will halve (or more). Should be quite a nice place
There, that's my recipe for the future!
P.S. Is "fourby" pronounced "four-bee" or "four bye"? And is it an Ozzie-ism?
May 15th 2007, 10:18 pm
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Re: Why by a 4X4 if you don't actualy need one
How many car parts are made out of plastic these days?
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May 15th 2007, 10:45 pm
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Re: Why by a 4X4 if you don't actualy need one
Buses and trams are also higher than 4x4s. I think the height thing is rubbish, most combustion engine vehicles are made of metal and are heavy and will make your eyes water if you get hit by one.
Sure - I'm sure that some injuries are made worse by 4x4 in some cases but you have to ask why the pedestrian was there in the first place.
There are loads of things that will kill you in this life, a 4x4 is not necesssarily a major cause.
They are a pain in the inner city, but for many people they are fun and double up in all sorts of roles - not many people want to run 2 cars.
Sure - I'm sure that some injuries are made worse by 4x4 in some cases but you have to ask why the pedestrian was there in the first place.
There are loads of things that will kill you in this life, a 4x4 is not necesssarily a major cause.
They are a pain in the inner city, but for many people they are fun and double up in all sorts of roles - not many people want to run 2 cars.
May 15th 2007, 11:38 pm
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Re: Why by a 4X4 if you don't actualy need one
A 500% increase in the price of fuel does not by definition mean that one's cost of living has to increase proportionally. Mine certainly wouldn't.
If the government would allow me to buy property here I don't think I'd even need utilities other than sewage to be connected. We get a lot of sunlight and I commute on a pushbike.
The increase in the cost of living is what you make it. I admittedly own a car, but the last time I went to use it I had to jump start it as it'd been sitting for so long. It's not an old car - an 01 vectra - which i chose because it's frugal on the highway and that's all i do with it.
There's two outcomes I'd like to see from a massive increase in fuel taxation - firstly to stem the profligate manner in which we use energy, and secondly to provide considerably more funds to further the research and infrastructure for properly sustainable energy systems like solar and wind.
There's no reason we can't enjoy the kind of transport and other living conveniences we do today under a sustainable energy model - it just requires that we take the cash from coal and oil companies and give it to solar and wind outfits.
I find it hard to credit that anyone with kids would think differently. I don't incidentally - we may in the future, but it doesn't look like the world will be a great place in 80yrs time.
If the government would allow me to buy property here I don't think I'd even need utilities other than sewage to be connected. We get a lot of sunlight and I commute on a pushbike.
The increase in the cost of living is what you make it. I admittedly own a car, but the last time I went to use it I had to jump start it as it'd been sitting for so long. It's not an old car - an 01 vectra - which i chose because it's frugal on the highway and that's all i do with it.
There's two outcomes I'd like to see from a massive increase in fuel taxation - firstly to stem the profligate manner in which we use energy, and secondly to provide considerably more funds to further the research and infrastructure for properly sustainable energy systems like solar and wind.
There's no reason we can't enjoy the kind of transport and other living conveniences we do today under a sustainable energy model - it just requires that we take the cash from coal and oil companies and give it to solar and wind outfits.
I find it hard to credit that anyone with kids would think differently. I don't incidentally - we may in the future, but it doesn't look like the world will be a great place in 80yrs time.
Lucky you for being able to comute to work on a push bike,I would love to be able to, but would have a hell of a job towing my wheelbarrow,cement mixer and about another 100kgs of tools on my 90km journey to work every day.
John
