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The SMH reports:
Australians cast aside global warming worries to buy a record one million cars in the past year.
Note the assumption we were worried in the first place. Australians just aren’t, by and large; we don’t watch global warming TV shows, we don’t turn off our lights, we don’t read Tim Lambert’s global-warming-is-real-I-have-proof blog (lately sunk to just above three figures daily) and we don’t buy stupid hybrid cars:
So far this year, only 2081 hybrids have been sold here out of a total market of 419,279 or just 0.5 per cent. Of these, 1290 (62 per cent) were bought by governments.
(Via Alan R.M. Jones)
If I were Al III I’d insist on a jury trial. No one is going to believe those things can break 100 mph. The rubber band would break.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 07 05 at 02:51 PM • permalinkI can see there being a niche market for hybrids, but they certainly ain’t the cure all for any environmental woes, imagined or real.
Mostly imagined, these days, now that I think about it. We got environmental problems, alright, but as usual, the watermelons are focusing their energies on the wrong topics.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 05 at 02:55 PM • permalinkIn northern Virginia, the niche market is for people who want to drive in HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) lanes without passengers. Hybrids get special dispensation. Needless to say they’re quite popular with commuters.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 07 05 at 03:27 PM • permalink“...we don’t turn off our lights”
I had the lights off and all the doors and windows open last night due to 100 F temperatures, wandered into the kitchen to get a drink, and tripped over a racoon that had stopped in to raid the dry dog food.
Both of us damned near had heart attacks.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 05 at 04:46 PM • permalinkHow is a trend wherein,
“Locally-built large cars continuing to lose ground against smaller, more fuel-efficient imports”
and,
“Sales of light cars are up by 12.3 per cent, while small car sales are up 7.9 per cent”
an indication that,
“Australians have cast aside concerns about global warming to buy a record one million cars in the past financial year”?
Granted, it might be, but they offer no proof. Every last buyer might have bought up to a more efficient model than they had previously, thinking they are doing their part while also taking advantage of the savings they’ll accrue and not sacrificing too much of their needs just to get a blessing from the Gaia obsessed snobs in the Media.
The self-righteously condescending ‘you peons didn’t measure up to our standards’ by our environmental media overlords is insufferable. LOL, what a bunch of ‘tards.
What cars do the SMH people drive, I wonder. Are they all hybrids? Which ones didn’t turn over their cars this last finanical year for Gaia? Inquiring minds want to know.
This guy was pretty bold. About 2 A.M. he came back, stuck his head in the back door, watched me and the dog for about five minutes to see if we were going to do anything about it, then sat down on his haunches and started in on the dog dish.
My poor old dog has arthritis so bad he can’t stand up anymore without assistance, so all he could do was sit there and watch in amazement as this coon chowed down on the dog food.
I would have run him off, but they’re so damned cute. I love watching them eat. They have excellent table manners. Wash their hands when they’re done eating too.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 05 at 05:19 PM • permalinkThat would have been 1,004,098 vehicles if my new 6 litre V8 had arrived on time last week.
Finally picked it up on Tuesday so it will count in the 07-08 statistics.
What a joy it is. So far I have only managed to get a burn rate of 13.7 litres per 100 k, but I’m sure I will be able to get that up a bit when I get the courage to really tramp on it.What a moron, just because 1 million new cars are bought doesn’t automatically mean there are 1 mill ADDITIONAL cars on the road.
The majority of purchasers sold/traded in their previous vehicles which is adding to the ongoing trend on decreasing the price of newer second hand cars and decreasing the age of Australia’s vehicle fleet.
This is of course good news for the environment as newer cars (aside from the point Dusty made at 9) are more fuel and carbon efficient but are considerably cleaner when it comes to real pollution.
A newer car fleet is great for reducing the road toll too with newer cars tending to be safer.
Very true Looneyc - we sold 2 of our used cars, and bought 1 new and 1 old banger for my work trips.
I must confess, however, that my car we sold was a red v8 monaro - I almost cried. Fatherhood is worth it, but .... oh well.
I do enjoy revving the crap out of my oldy car and flogging some young persons tricked out jap import. Then I remember my car is a Toyota.
Just a few weeks ago, I made my first purchase of a new car myself (a Volkswagen Rabbit with a 2.5 liter 5-banger putting out 150hp. Basically a VW Golf with a different name) after spending the last 10 years driving a beater ‘84 Toyota Camry. The old Camry was a total rustbucket (not necessarily when I bought it, but the years caught up to it pretty quickly) but it was one seriously reliable car, and lasted me just long enough (reverse gear went out on the transmission the day before I traded it in.) I shudder to think what would have happened if I ever got into a major wreck in the thing though. A few pics, and some additional thoughts on the old beater here, on my new Blog:
#11 Dave, you might like to borrow this pack of vermin exterminators to help your old dog sort out the racoon.
OT
Promoting Live Earth, radio station Triple M Adelaide gave away tickets the Crowded House consert.
To the person with the highest quarterly electricity bill.
Posted by armageddon on 2007 07 05 at 06:28 PM • permalink#5 TRJ, My current environmental problem is the bloddy critters which keep eating my vegetables I am attempting to grow in my garden.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 05 at 06:39 PM • permalinkHow come when Rudd bangs on about global climo-warmo-changiferousness it’s serious and worthwhile, but when Howard and Co. undertake a real and urgent initiative it’s “electioneering”?
That debate/discussion after the showing of the warming scam doco better be on a higher level of propriety than “Difference of Opinion”. The makeup of the panel and the steering by the compere/ringmaster will show it up. I presume that the delay in getting it here has allowed much more critical examination than has been given by ABC opinionators to An Inconvenient Truth, which is mentioned along with the Stern Report and the IPCC “Summary” with absolute reverence. These are holy writ, to be used in lieu of telephone books when interrogating recalcitrant pollies who “haven’t done enough” about the CO2 Blasphemy.“What would have happened, had this happened to you…”
“Belgian Dinner Guest Finds Bodies of Host’s Wife, Stepson in Freezer.”
Think I might just have to take a raincheck on that one.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 05 at 07:05 PM • permalinkI rmember reading some time ago an arguement that the government could achieve greater environmental gains by giving people with clapped out junkers new 4 cylinder ricebubble cars.
Never saw any figures though, so it was probably a throw away line.
Mind you HoWard could legitimately give away “free cars” beforew the election AND claim its “for the environment”.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 05 at 07:09 PM • permalink“#11 Dave, you might like to borrow this pack of vermin exterminators to help your old dog sort out the racoon.”
Good looking pups. My old guy has the same color scheme, but he’s a tad furrier (Gordon Setter)...and way past the point where he can handle a coon.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 05 at 07:12 PM • permalinkOT…and this could be old news for the experienced hands here…but started a new book last night, a Kinky Friedman collection, and Piers Ackerman (“that fine Australian journalist” or words to that effect) is mentioned as an acquaintance of one the characters. Peter Daicos, Kinky Friedman….is there anyone you RWDB’s don’t know?
Posted by anonymous guest on 2007 07 05 at 07:14 PM • permalink#30 yes…it’s quite painless…and I am so much happier now…
Posted by anonymous guest on 2007 07 05 at 07:53 PM • permalinkOk, in keeping with our bravehearts and great quotes theme this season, I present something from the other side of the age spectrum:
“I wanted to protect my little brother,” 5-year-old says
Damn impressed at the little fellas bravery - let’s hope he is successfully treated and doesn’t get rabies.
ps 3 gun shots didn’t kill a fox, but crutches and a tree branch did - you gun toting folks may need to keep a baseball bat handy as well! (I have my golf clubs and my wife).
I’ve done my bit for/against global warming: I’m the proud owner of a brand spankin’ new steel gray 6-cylinder Kia Sportage. Not exactly a road-burner, but it’s small (and still lets me sit up high), safety-rated, efficient, has a nice little kick, and is roomy for its size. The big grandson now owns the 4-cylinder GM pickup, and Mr. H is hauling his golf clubs in my beloved Ford Ranger. Win-win all around.
“Note the assumption we were worried in the first place.”
You would think that the Fairfaxistas would have realized by now that they do not speak for Australians. After all, the unwashed masses keep voting Howard in, in spite of the wished of their moral and intellectual superiors at The Age, SMH, ABC etc.
Posted by niobium2000 on 2007 07 05 at 09:37 PM • permalink#45 kae - chuckle.
#31 paco - forget what Greenland was like 500,000 years ago, I want to see those archaeologists get going on the old Viking settlements, assuming we get as warm as it was back in the Middle Ages (quite possible, we’re almost there. But then again, those sunspots are due to decline around 2020, I think it is, and there are still those predicting the next Ice Age cometh).
#G’day D.
Howz thingz? Not blown away in this wind…
I woke up this AM, thought it was Saturday and turned the alarm off. I usually get up at 5ish and leave home at 5:30ish. I woke up at 7ish - arrgh! I got to work in good time, wind must have blown my little town closer to the city! Happy I gave you a laff.But it’s TRUE. As someone on another thread also mentioned, I also don’t think a Prius could reach terminal velocity (is this Wiki right?) whatever it is in kilometres.
Don’t new cars have better emissions that old ones? So isn’t buying new cars—even non-hybrids a good thing? One would think so, until one realizes that the goal of the modern Environmentalist movement is not the preservation of the environment but the fall of humanity. People buying cars is good for the environment, but it is also good for people, hence bad for Environmentalism.
Discussion I had with 2 Australian Conservation Foundation pan handlers this week.
ACFPH 1: As you know there’s a lot of concern with global warming, water, erosion blah, blah, blah… (at this point I rolled my eyes and lent against a wall)
ME: Yep.
ACFPH 1: What issues are you worried about?
ME: None. (Wish I’d said islamofascism and the Wallabies front row)
ACFPH 1 (incredulous): So you’re not worried about anything???
ME: Nup. I think global warming is a load of crap. I’m going to have to ask you guys to leave.
ACFPH 2: Aaaaaaaah so you’ll still be here when the WORLD DIES???!!!
ME: Yes, I will. See you later guys.
(ACFPH 1&2 storm out and slam office door.)
Quite confusing really. I was so steamed up, I couldn’t say all the things I’d wanted to say. Bastards caught me by surprise by being well dressed. I’d guessed they were going to ask about changing phone carrier. I’m just glad we both assume I’m going to survive the apocalypse.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 05 at 09:51 PM • permalinkAlso casting aside Glowbawl Warming worries is Cate Blanchett who jetted over to Paris to catch Armani’s latest show. Good on you, Cate.
Apologies if it’s already been linked this poem (based on Poe’s ‘The Raven’) found at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler site. It begins:
Once upon a midnight dreary, as I wondered weak and weary
Why the Goreacle is such a tedious, monumental bore.
Surely in the loads of drivel, tripe to make a man’s brain shrivel,
Interspersed with jibes uncivil, there’d be something to explore?
Could that whole ungodly slideshow be but lies and nothing more?
Would that someone had kept score!(continued at link)
#38 That kid is a future Marine, no doubt about it.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 07 05 at 10:04 PM • permalinkJust like a gummint to by the highest TCO thing on the market. Course, the building I work at has kudzu growning through the rear wheel wells of a couple of Dept of Somethinorother Vehicles. Every morning I go to work, I think, “they didn’t lower my taxes enough.” (Which is something only a conservative thinks) Mebbe I’ll see if they can sell one of those old Jeeps (early 90s Cherokees) to me. Cheap. Hmmm…
Australians cast aside global warming worries to buy a record one million cars in the past year.
The SMH can breathe easy.
Their 5000 tons of newsprint a week and automotive-derived income of $10million a week is safe.God help the hypocrites if Australians stop buying/dealers stop advertising.
Amazing eh? The more greenhouse gas-belching cars we buy, the safer the revenue stream at Fairfax.
Not that the bastards will ever admit it of course!
#52 Infidel
Next time, tell them you’re very concerned about global warming, then tell them about those aliens and their giant galactic microwave oven that’s causing it all, and how the government’s known about it for some time but won’t do anything, but that you’re involved with a group of
nuttersactivists currently making plans to blow the whole thing open, and if the gentlemen at your door could just assist with a nominal donation, say $100-$1000 for the cause (tax deductibility status pending, but you’re “very confident” the ATO will accept it), and that if they’d like to step inside you’ve got some literature and proof about this - and other - conspiracies, and that you’ll ring Gerald, the group’s treasurer, to come round straight away with the membership forms…hello? Hello? You coming back? Great, see you soon then! I’ll just ring Gerald…#58 - Excellent plan, Dminor. The worry is that they’d agree with me and wait for Gerald to come over with the forms. The cash would be handy for the weekend though…
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 05 at 10:30 PM • permalinkWhat’s that, Gerald? Men in black tailing you again? Use evasion pattern delta. What do you mean, that was last time? I thought that was epsilon. Oh. Hang tight, then. I’ll call Wronwright, he’s only two centuries away.
Er, sorry gentleman. Just leave the cash and a contact number on the coffee table. We’ll get back to you.
O/T but getup reaches a new low even for them.
“Ms Barry, who wrote and conceived the ad for political group GetUp!, blames Mr Howard for getting us into “this mess” and says “it’s your responsibility to get us out”.”
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 05 at 11:20 PM • permalink#61 - I’m reserving judgment on Ms. Barry, but “pawn” comes to mind.
I’m glad she’s got her “root cause”. Cold comfort for the 88 Aussies slain in Bali in 2002.
Uh oh. Rage boiling again….
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 05 at 11:25 PM • permalinkA bit more, 2 of the original board members have left to chase political careers. Guess which party?
Evan
BillSolomon, the director of “get up” on the move to improve aboriginal health.
2 of the other founders also made This website. Which blames the evil Joos!
“Talk is rising of a ‘clash of civilizations’. But the problem isn’t culture, it’s politics – from 9/11 to Guantanamo, Iraq to Iran. This clash is not inevitable, and we don’t want it.So where to start? The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the key symbol of the rift between Islam & the West…”
And last of all (for now) Amanda Tattersall, another founder of get up Interesting Curriculum Vitae she has on the net? “non politicaly alligned my hairy ballsack! Check her “office memberships” all ALP
Sorry to be so O/T but this mob of liars shit me.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 05 at 11:40 PM • permalink“GetUp.org.au is a new independent political movement to build a progressive Australia”
They’re a bunch of commies.
Of course, they’re scum.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 05 at 11:41 PM • permalinkOops that BillSolomon link above is actually 2 links Bill AND Solomon, ran them together Im afraid.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 05 at 11:43 PM • permalink#11, Dave Surls;
I would have run him off, but they’re so damned cute. I love watching them eat. They have excellent table manners. Wash their hands when they’re done eating too.
In spite of all that, don’t forget that they might be carrying a parasitic roundworm that can cause fatal encephalitis in people. A 2-year-old child near Carmel (an expensive coastal California community) apparently caught it from raccoons that have become common over there, eating the dog’s and cat’s dinners, a likely daring any of them to say anything about it.Yet another thing to think about…
Looks like the old adage of “If in doubt, bore it out” still holds true, with the addendum of ”for some extra boltage, kick up the voltage”- sure worked for my slotcar set when I was a kid, until they burst into flames.
#56
“Mebbe I’ll see if they can sell one of those old Jeeps (early 90s Cherokees) to me.”
Got some airport ramming to do?? :) Of course, it appears that a Jeep Cherokee won’t make it past a properly installed security bollard. Which is a good thing.
#62
“Uh oh. Rage boiling again….”
Maybe you could take the title of “Non-Islamic Rage Boy.” I think it’s unclaimed at the moment.
And I think they just forgot about the one of these they placed in the boot, for balance.
WAY OFF TOPIC ALERT
“In spite of all that, don’t forget that they might be carrying a parasitic roundworm that can cause fatal encephalitis in people.”
Very rare (only a dozen documented cases in the last 25 years in the USA), and almost always occurs in very young children (because they’re always sticking their fingers in their mouths and if they happen to touch raccoon feces before they suck their thumbs…that could be a bad thing).
Dr. Dave’s best advice: don’t play with raccoon droppings.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 06 at 02:18 AM • permalink#16 -
The bodies had been in the freezer for several weeks?
Just goes to show what a great investment a Premier Assassins Corpse Obliterator is.
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Don’t be unkind to the Prius. According to Al Gore III you can rev those hot little Gaia-rapers up to 100 mph.
Of course, it helps if you’re stoned out of your gourd at the time.