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Submitted by iana on Tue, 2013-05-28 18:00
Heard on the news that our price for producing gas is too high by world standards, and we'll lose export markets.
Why are we exporting gas and importing petrol!!!
till
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Well, depending on how short
Well, depending on how short term your memory is, there was a big push to get people using gas a few years ago.
If that answers your question.
barneyboy
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go on dip the toe, I dare ya!!!haha
They were saying that the labour content was to expensive and will be loosing more jobs and importing more cheap labour to compensate!!
FEEEISH ONNN!!!
shonky
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it's all bullshit
They were basically saying they could build a gas plant in the USA for half the cost and that labour here was too expensive. Just forgot to mention that the cost of living there was half the price as it is here and they weren't getting taxed to the hilt like we are!
This habit is getting expensive!
iana
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I guess what jagged my
I guess what jagged my thoughts was hearing the Ford factory will close, yet as I understand it, the last ford engine, running on gas was really good. Why aren't we looking after our own backyard, manufacturing closing down left right and centre, and we are importing shit. We should slap on import tariffs, just like China does!
carnarvonite
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Natural gas vs LPG
Except for buses running on natural gas around the metro area the rest of the public have to use LPG at inflated prices compared to over east.
Rip off prices, don't know what it costs to fill a 9kg bottle down south , but try $35-$40 here in Carnarvon
TGMitchell
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A guy just bought a 68 litre
A guy just bought a 68 litre LPG cylinder off me that I had had in one of my cars - he's putting it in his caravan for cooking use. He said its perfectly legal as long as a gasfitter certifies it. His mate has one which he just takes out and fills up at the servo for 70c a litre instead of 3 or 4 bucks
The Black Baron
iana
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Didn't think.
LPG as opposed to natural gas. Overseas natural gas is being used more for vehicles, but not here. Heard on the news some time back, a company is looking to start up gas fields closer to Perth, as supplies are expected to decline here. Could have been a scare tactic.
What really is a scare tactic, is that in Mongolia (Rio-Tinto) they have developed huge iron ore mines to come on line this year. That means iron ore is available to Chine just a train trip away.
Maybe Collin Barnett has got something to worry about and is not telling us!
TGMitchell
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In a few years both petrol
In a few years both petrol and gas will be old news - Electric cars are only witing for improvemnents in battery technology - namely two issues capacity and charge time and both of those issues have been solved at a scientific level. Full commercialisation of Electric vehicles with driving ranges that match current fossil fuel technology and charge of of a few minutes are only a better of a few (max 10 years away) - then internal combustion engines will be a thing of the past - like steam engines are now.
The Black Baron