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I recently got a towbar fitted to my MG 4 & I bought a new 6 x 4 trailer. You don't even notice the trailer is there as the elcetric power adjusts so if you put your foot down it accelerates as if it isn't there. There is a noticeable difference in power consumption though. I found at 110 kmh with the trailer & a load on it was sucking about 22 kWh/100km compared with 15-16 without the trailer, but at 80 kmh there wasn't much difference. It cost about $1,500.00 fitted but I know some people have negotiated to get a towbar fitted for free when they purchased the car (or probably they could have negotiated a lower price if the towbar wasn't fitted).

We are pretty much the omly first world country with the highest inflation rate. The USA is lower..even the basket case pommies are better than us .Japan is extremely low, All economists and experts say its the amount of spending this government is doing. They are addicted to it. The budgets they put out are creative accounting they do not show the full costs ..there is so much "off the books" they dont show which would then show the real balance sheet of Australia. There are now literally more people working directly for the government in one way or another than the rest. This country is not productive any more. I saw a stat a couple of days ago where 1700 private businesses have gone bust. 300 off in qld and 600 odd in NSW and the rest in Victoria..and that was the last month of two. Those businesses are private and didnt work or supply goods to the govt or their projects. We are being led down the wrong track for the past 4 or 5 years. We need to turn this around. We need more of our young people to not do arty farty uni courses and get them on the tools..they will earn a lot more and build this place back up instead of importing dog walkers and yoga instructors and foreign studebts who just suck on the system and dont make this country productive Is this too hard to do or am I barking up the wrong tree and I should get in my time machine and go back to the 80's This country is so rooted now. Yes I am a baby boomer and what I have I have worked for and paid millions of dollars in tax yet apparently I am a drag on the system and not something to aspire to apparently

The thing with preferential voting is that I can send a signal. My seat is a safe seat, it has not changed hands in decades. Whilst I know my vote will flow through to the least worst of the 2 major candidates. If the winning candidate only just scrapes in then post election analysis may pus a party right or left depending on where the preferences are coming from. A strong One Nation vote is a signal for the major parties to the right and a strong flow from the Greens may signal something different. No system is perfect.

We just drove 250 km in our Toyota hybrid. Efficient and comfortable.

They are nowhere near the same size or Power. You cannot create energy and the engines of hybrids get a hard time.. Don't believe everything you get on You tube. Nev

One BIG truck does more damage than hundreds of Lighter vehicles. Nev

Your argument Lacks Logic. Not all electric motors re equal but they are simpler and more reliable than ICE and require less attention. All A/C which is connected Must Be synchronous or it will destroy itself.. ELECTRICITY is here to stay, Get with the strength and FACTS,. Silent and clean. The BIT you Like has been adequately debunked also. Nev

As ironic as it seems in a country with the land area of Australia, but unlimited immigration can lead to over-population. I don't mean that it could lead to the population densities seen in countries like India and China. I mean that in localised areas such as our metropolitan areas. I mean that it could lead to the inability of an area to support that population. The first thing I think of is water supply. I see the growth of residential areas in the Sydney Metropolitan Area, and I see the possibilities for water supply for those areas. The major storage facility is Warragamba Dam. Our climate is one of somewhat irregular rainfall. I have seen this dam overflow, and I have also seen its water level drop a great deal. Already the height of the dam wall has been raised above its original design height. There are no other sites for dams because any dam would hold back water flow into Warragamba. The water supply problem exists all along the east coast and the inland. The 48 States of the USA, which cover the same area as Australia, can support their populations because the land has abundant water throughout. Similarly for Europe. This continent has been inhabited for 50,000+ years. Why wouldn't it have produced a similar population size to other places? Simply beause the lack of water meant that the inhabitants did not have any time after attending to mere survival to develop the civilisations the developed elsewhere. It immigration continues unabated, Australia will not be able to provide the essential need for survival - water. If that happens, we have over-population.

Nomad I did say Mainly for Aviators. STOP judging what you think I'm saying. You are Playing a role no one gave you the right to do. It's Harassment and Please desist. Nev