Ive asked the Mrs if she can get an electric bike to do the weekly shopping on.. I cannot print the reply.
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Well then don't say that there's not an alternative or that petrol is some kind of "necessity".
Electric scooters are another one with decent range.
I do our weekly shop by bike, quite straightforward to fit everything in a couple of pannier bags and maybe a bungee cord for bulky items. Cheaper, bit of fresh air and exercise, and no stress parking the car. It's a huge waste of energy taking a car with you just to pick up a couple of bags of food.
bike riding be very popular soon following the petrol price at $4 a litre. is that after russia invades or the houthis blow up every pipeline in saudi.
anyway the nzx is wanting to be the leader again as the worst market in the world :scared: currently only being beaten by rut and nasdaq
That link here the other day. Increased fuel prices by $1 and the US consumption falls enough to make the world carbon neutral. So that isn't going to happen.
Well this is the problem ... how slow and hard is it to build a house in NZ at present(this is not just a NZ problem) ....or Buy a new car (we have been waiting for 8months for new "Kia Sorento")
Even though we are living through a so called "Great Pandemic" the earth gains more than 1mill humans per week .... add in the amounts of dirty poor rural folks coming into cities in the likes of CHINA -India ,African nations etc ... they all want to have what the Yanks have.. Cars ...
I heard on CNBC from an expert energy analyst ...that they see higher daily oil demands next year than pre-COVID !!!
Also add in the picture we have heads of Energy exporter nations stating a dire need of continue investment of $500bill per year just to keep pre-covid production demands meet ...
But as we have seen from may head of nations ...the talk of no need to invest in dirty fossil fuels ..are own knobs in power ...call for the stopping of O&G exploration in NZ etc ...
Expensive fuel prevents all from owning fossil fuel cars, problem solved right JB? Let them cycle, I heard there is an oversupply of ride share bikes in China so they shouldn't have any problems. Of greater concern is the social unrest closer to home that a spike in fuel prices could have. 91 is up at least 50 cents in the last few years, the French have rioted for less...