Be aware of small businesses ripping customers off using the carbon tax as a excuse.

[dazza 38]

It is all too hard, best to fast foward the next election and get the LNP in power.LNP winning is a given.

 

 

[fly_tornado]

Be interesting to see if the LNP can scratch together some policies before the next election, I am guessing they won't, they'll just cruise in the anti-tax sentiment.

 

Our new agricultural minister announced that the government was going to double food production in QLD by 2040, which is just 28 years away. Such is the power of the Magic Wand

 

 

[turboplanner]

Our new agricultural minister announced that the government was going to double food production in QLD by 2040, which is just 28 years away. Such is the power of the Magic Wand

 

The best part about Australia’s democracy is that someone from the Government doesn’t come out and shoot you if you disagree with them.

 

The worst part is that they are forced to make their plans and spend their money to bring in projects in the last six months of their term in order to be re-elected.....or so they think.

 

Doubling Queensland’s food production would not be a huge issue given State financing for equipment, production, transport and irrigation.

 

Huge volumes of water currently flow into the sea every day, and a project which writer Ion Idriess conceived in the 1920’s – diverting this water through the divide and into the inland waterways would see much of the outback turned into fertile land all the way down to lake Eyre. (Idriess by the way had WALKED to each of the areas he recommended)

 

These examples of specatular lateral thinking show us what can be done if there’s a will:

 

The British Government could see before WW2 that the Germans were outstripping them in military aircraft production, so in some smart lateral thinking they approached Lord William Morris, Viscount Nuffield, a car salesman.

 

He co-ordinated car plants to produce aircraft, and employed women to build them and by 1940 Nuffield factories were the main source of British fighters.

 

So the Germans were beaten in the air by a fleet of English Morrises.

 

In the US, Detroit retooled from cars to aircraft and in two thirds of the normal gestation period for a car, rolled the first B24 Liberator off the line at the Ford plants, which at one stage were rolling them off at one per hour, and built nearly 9000.

 

General Motors built fighters, Chrysler built fuselages and Packard built Rolls Royce Merlin engines for Mustangs.

 

The general population did their part by driving anround in old clunkers until the end of the war when Detroit re-tooled the lines and built record numbers of new cars to replace the clunkers.

 

It is a very spectacular story of innovation, lateral thinking and co-operation.

 

They built:

 

•nearly 300,000 aircraft (compared to Japan’s 70,000)

 

•more than 600,000 jeeps

 

•nearly 2.4 million military trucks

 

•more than 88,000 tanks

 

•more than 6.5 million rifles

 

•40 billion bullets

 

Sources:

 

•American History@Source101

 

•Perilous Fight

 

•America’s Last real Home Front

 

 

[fly_tornado]

Well it only took him 3 weeks in the job to work that out...

 

 

[Bruce]

Adam's markup wasn't that much. The biggest markup I know of was a fuel pump for an imported car. Cost to Lucas was $70. Cost to the customer $1400.

 

Told to me by a guy who worked there at the time.

 

 

[spacesailor]

The biggest profit by any standard is the Crook, government of charging %10 GST on Federal TAX at the fuel bowser.

 

Who else could get money on a tax paid ?.

 

spaceailor

 

 

[Bruce]

So what is the breakdown of the $1.40 you pay for a liter space?