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Oi! I am from Melbourne.. Go easy... 😉

It must have been some wild ride inside that "Sea-Bug", in that heavy sea!! (watch the 2nd YouTube clip). I'll wager they went through a few sick bags!! https://www.jalopnik.com/i-finally-found-what-the-ocean-going-vw-beetle-that-ins-1846145700/

Well that makes up for it then.

NEWS FLASH! Melbourne, already known for being a bit of a hole, has shown what it can really do, by way of big holes! 😄

I wonder what law was alleged that Maduro has broken. He has been indicted in a US Court, but what is the jurisdiction of that law? Here is the indictment. https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1422326/dl The last few ages nominate the actual part of a law that it is alleged to have been broken.

Council turns AJ Burkitt Oval into an aquatic centre. Saves ratepayers a fortune.

The Oil price is not high enough for the US to "Drill Baby Drill" Pennsylvanian Oil was the USA's Best for Lube oil. Nev

They are ONLY "other"" People MONEY/OIL is what counts. An earlier Post. Sorry. Nev

You get a LOT of them in Limestone ( like Portland). Nev

I've actually done competitive Rally driving in an OLDER VW owned by my Boss at the time. I think it broke about 4 crankshafts and eventually broke the chassis where the Motor is bolted on. It was NEVER rolled though which is quite remarkable as the Mass at the rear makes then GO from wild oversteer to rolling on the inside of the curve in a flash.. There was a saying at Newcastle Teacher's College at the time. "BUY a VW and ROLL your OWN".. They DO float in water. Nev

https://7news.com.au/news/melbourne-sinkhole-anger-at-heidelberg-oval-as-north-east-link-investigate-cause-c-21219704 A sinkhole appeared at AJ Burkitt Oval in the Banyule Flats Reserve in Heidelberg on Monday evening.

Venezuela's current production is only about one million barrels per day, which is a drop in the bucket and certainly won't bother China very much. Estimates are that to get it up to even 1.5m bpd would cost about $7 billion and take 2 years. Chevron is the only major US producer with a significant footprint in the country, and Trump can't simply order other US producers to move into a politically unstable country and spend billions of dollars ramping up production as he claims, even if they are led by his cronies. At the end of the day they have turn a profit for their shareholders, and even if Venezuela is sitting on 303 billion barrels of oil, which the US doesn't own anyway, time is not on Donald's side in getting his hands on it in his political lifetime. At the end of the day, they may have Maduro in jail but not much else to show for their efforts.

Many years ago I use to follow F1 quit heavily however having nearly all races in the middle of the night whilst also going to work I lost interest as I became sleep deprived however last year I renewed my interest in F1 being able to watch all races, through Kayo, and not being able to work. The other thing is having a great Australian kid in Oscar Piastri representing Australia to the world driving a Mclaren has been great to watch, becoming an Australian hero to all of us that are into F1. Anyway I imagined what it would be like to Australia if Oscar's car in the Melbourne Grand Prix was painted in the iconic Australian Green and Gold. What a marketing success it would be. So I created a mock up of one:

You lusty Lethario!

The Chairman of the NRMA was quoted today saying that we can expect petrol prices to drop to about 2020 levels simply because there is a it of a glut in the market. He did not atach the cause of that glut to Trump's latest actions. Perhaps EVs are causing a drop in demand, or maybe Trump's tariff attacks on oil producers are causing the producers to sell in other markets. If the USA cannot meet its own domestic demand for sour crude, then we might see lots of Yank tanks abandoned on the side of the road. Look out for the Amish to take over long haul transport!!

You forgot to mention the shocking VW handling at speed. They got the nickname "Turtle" because so many ended up on their back. If I had a dollar for every VW Beetle I've sighted on its roof, I'd have enough for a decent holiday. They would go from understeer to oversteer in a flash on bends, and catch out the unwary, inexperienced drivers. The only thing worse for handling than a Beetle, was the rear-engined Czech Tatra V8. The Tatra's killed quite a number of Nazi officers with their vicious handling - it was possibly one of the Allies greatest secret assets in WW2. The German High Command ended up banning all Nazi officers from owning or driving Tatra V8's .

The C-17's are heavy lift aircraft carrying tactical equipment to Britain, quite likely preparing for an operation such as intercepting oil tankers carrying Russian oil. Don't forget, DT, and his backers, have a major interest in ensuring America once again dominates the world oil market. I've been a little confused about the role Venezuelan oil plays in the world oil market. The initial information was that Venezuelan oil plays only a tiny part amongst the global oil producers, around 2% of world production. So the global oil traders simply shrugged off any impact on their trading from the Venezuelan invasion by the U.S.. But the true picture is, that Venezuelas oil reserves are the worlds largest, bigger than any Arab nation, including Saudi Arabia. What is even better, their oil is heavy, sour crude, which is what U.S. refineries are designed to treat. Canadian and Venezuelan crude are the primary feedstocks for these refineries. But the Canadians are looking to curtail U.S. sales of their crude, and to sell it elsewhere, thanks to Donalds trade war with Canada. The Venezuelans are sitting on 303 BILLION barrels of oil reserves, but their oil pumping efforts are pitiful, obviously due to lack of American oil money. Donald is all set to fix that. The problem is though, Donald probably thinks he can even control the global oil price by grabbing all the Venezuelan oil - but it doesn't work that way. He's getting set to drill and pump and flood the global oil market with lots of oil, at a time when global oil consumption has plateaued, and it's highly likely oil consumption will start on a path of decline, as the EV's and renewable energy projects continue to increase. This will tend to reduce the global oil price. However, OPEC still controls global oil prices to a very large degree, and they may cut production a little to keep the price up. No doubt Donald even thinks he can increase global oil consumption by encouraging and ramping up IC-engine production, particularly in the U.S. - but I personally think that's going into fantasy land.

What worries me about USofA's imperialist expansion, is what the US does next. Why did they send ten C17's to Britain, yesterday? Is this a logistics backup for their next military move?

You don't really get your hands dirty working on a Motorbike but you DO need a Bike stand and often "Special Tools" and to know what you are doing. Working on neglected DIESELS gets your Hands dirty. Nev

Compared to previous US invasions of sovereign states, I almost class that as precision. They must have outsourced their attack skills.

Present count about 80.