How? Will it launch interplanatry probes? Will it launch bits of space stations? Will it launch people into orbit? (Yeah, OK nasa dont at the moment either, but they will again)
Sub orbital flight is a long way from orbital flight.
Most households get by on 0% NET margin. In other words, they spend everything they make each month.
A lot of households get by on a negative margin each month. With mounting credit card debts it can't last forever, and I'm not looking forward to when it ends.
Global warming? It's happened before (grapes grown in scotland in the 1400's), so's cooling (iced over theames in the 1800s). We've had ice ages, we've had tropical ages. The average temperature of the planet now is lower then the average across the last 200 million years. Why is this mans (and transports) fault?
Cars are more likely to be fully loaded (or at least 3/4) on long distance off peak trips. Trains arent. This of course is based on my own experience of train travel, which is arround about 5000 miles this year. Trains can be electric, but they arent. The FGW to Cornwall, for example, is usually arround 1/4-1/2 full on average. The average car (including commuting) has a load factor of 1.4, slightly higher then the average FGW.
In peak times, trains are overcrowded and dangerous, and getting on for £1 ($1.70) a mile. Forcing more people onto trains aint smart, but more trains could be run if the infrastructure was upgraded. Sadly they dont spend fuel tax on transport infrasctructure, which I believe they should.
The efficeny I mentioned was the average bittish car (Ford Mondeo sort of size)
My link was only about CO2 because that's the only thing you can possibly complain about. 95% of car polution is removed by a catalystic converter in practically every car in the UK. Sulphur dioxide is a problem. 97% of the countrys emmisions dont come from transport though. about 25% of PM10's in the atmosphere come from transport - and 80% of those from diesels, disproportinatly large (bus, truck, etc) diesels. The air quality in the worst parts of the UK is quite good. Polutants are arround 20-40% of the WHO "safe" level for continuous exposure.
Of course, as more people move to electric/fuel cell cars, the UK government at least will tax them just as much as it taxes motorists now. The issue isn't the polution that a car (alegedly) makes, it's the fact that a car empowers people. in 10 years every car in the UK will be tracked, receiving GPS and transmitting position via the GSM network, leading the way to "congestion charging". We'll still pay the same ammount of tax, just in a different (more inefficent) way.
The hurt motorist ideology of the left isn't the answer. Do you really think people like being stuck on the M25 every morning? The answer is improove Public, and private, transport with proceeds from transport taxation, and raise income tax so EVERYONE pays their fair share for the NHS and social security.
Oh, and for the record I dont own a car, and I walk to work every morning (when not being run over by bikes on the pavement)
As for comparing sectarian violence in Ireland with unhinged relegious extremists... well you obviously haven't got a clue what you are talking about.
Yes, cause with the IRA (american funded), it doesn't affect America. America couldnt give a fuck if 2 British kids get blown up, but as soon as they get a bloody nose it's all "the world has changed, waaaaa"
(See journal for mor eof my thoughts on the fuckers)
Assuming that human beings can affect the global climate (compared with something like major volcanos, or the sun) sounds much more unlikely to be honest.
The land is already owned by the road. Roads (average 20m wide, being very conservitive) take up 7,500 sq km of the UK, or 3% of the land area.
Want to say "this could be used by <BLAH>"? Farmland is a much bigger "cost" in that case.
The const of building new roads inlcudes paying for the compulsary purchase orders. Same as car parks, airports and the CTRL.
As for deaths (RTAs), even at £1 million per death, thats only £3bn ($5bn) a year. What about deaths you got when everyone used horse and cart? Horse feces ain't the most hygenic thing to put in the middle of residential streets.
As for polution in general. A fully loaded car is more efficent per passanger mile then a fully loaded train.
Your hydrogen-powered Prius may run as pure and clean as fresh snow, but if a coal-fired generator is supplying the electricity needed to electrolyze water and make hydrogen, then it's all for naught.
Yes, because a tiny oilfired engine in a car can be as efficent and clean as a massive coal/oil/gas fired power station. Not ot mention reducing concentrated polution in cities
If you are talking about Polution per passanger mile, a typical british car at full loading causes less polution per passanger mile then a typical british train at full loading.
People of course should be free to choose their vehicle. And pay for the damage they cause. A 4 ton "car" causes 256 time as much damage to the road as a 1 ton car. Therefore the 4 ton car should pay 256 time more. If the roads were run properly as a buisness that's how things would be.
In the UK it's the other way arround. Gas tax and other car taxes raise about $70bn for the exchequer each year, and only about $15bn is spent on roads and public transport combined (about 50:50).
If the spent all the money raised from petrol tax and VED on transport - 50:50, we'd have a highway network to rival germany, and a train network to rival japan, and still have money left over. $200 billion over the next 5 years could pay for a lot of PT infrastructure inprovements.
The main congestion in the UK comes from
1) Peak time traffic. PT is not a viable solution as the trains (commuter and long distance) are already overflowing. PT sucks at peak flow management too, as the trains then run empty for the rest of the day. Solution? More train lines going to places that people want, and parkway stations. Drive from low density area to parkway station, then 100mph non stop to the city center. 2) Accidents. One major accident on the M6 at junction 14 and the entire North West - Midlands corridor dies. This can be mittigated not by expanding the width of highways (rarely works, as in the UK you can only pass on the outside, no undertaking, and doris always sticks in the lane next to the outside lane, and lorrys always stick in all the lanes "overtaking" each other. Solution, germanise. Double the number of motorways to allow redundancy and dynamic routing in the network
Easilly affordable if the car related taxes paid for it. They dont though, they subsidise our $450bn ($7,500 per person) social security program, which should be paid for through taxes that affect everyone.
And a bike, or a motorbike, Which is even more vulnerable?
(For you hummer drivers out there, a pushbike is a human propelled vehicle with two wheels that, in cities, is pretty much the fastest form of transport for A-B you can have, faster then Motorbikes)
Just tax them at the damage they cause to the road. If a 1 ton car is taxed for $10, a hummer should be $10k (damage is proportinal to axle weight^4 IIRC)
will be a problem as more efficient, lighter cars share the road with Hummers.???
Dont know about america, but in the rest of the world we have 44 ton trucks, 3 ton vans, 2 ton cars, and 200lb bikes sharing the road, and we seem to cope pretty well.
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they could put nasa out of business!
How? Will it launch interplanatry probes? Will it launch bits of space stations? Will it launch people into orbit? (Yeah, OK nasa dont at the moment either, but they will again)
Sub orbital flight is a long way from orbital flight.
Most households get by on 0% NET margin. In other words, they spend everything they make each month.
A lot of households get by on a negative margin each month. With mounting credit card debts it can't last forever, and I'm not looking forward to when it ends.
Global warming? It's happened before (grapes grown in scotland in the 1400's), so's cooling (iced over theames in the 1800s). We've had ice ages, we've had tropical ages. The average temperature of the planet now is lower then the average across the last 200 million years. Why is this mans (and transports) fault?
Cars are more likely to be fully loaded (or at least 3/4) on long distance off peak trips. Trains arent. This of course is based on my own experience of train travel, which is arround about 5000 miles this year. Trains can be electric, but they arent. The FGW to Cornwall, for example, is usually arround 1/4-1/2 full on average. The average car (including commuting) has a load factor of 1.4, slightly higher then the average FGW.
In peak times, trains are overcrowded and dangerous, and getting on for £1 ($1.70) a mile. Forcing more people onto trains aint smart, but more trains could be run if the infrastructure was upgraded. Sadly they dont spend fuel tax on transport infrasctructure, which I believe they should.
The efficeny I mentioned was the average bittish car (Ford Mondeo sort of size)
My link was only about CO2 because that's the only thing you can possibly complain about. 95% of car polution is removed by a catalystic converter in practically every car in the UK. Sulphur dioxide is a problem. 97% of the countrys emmisions dont come from transport though. about 25% of PM10's in the atmosphere come from transport - and 80% of those from diesels, disproportinatly large (bus, truck, etc) diesels. The air quality in the worst parts of the UK is quite good. Polutants are arround 20-40% of the WHO "safe" level for continuous exposure.
Of course, as more people move to electric/fuel cell cars, the UK government at least will tax them just as much as it taxes motorists now. The issue isn't the polution that a car (alegedly) makes, it's the fact that a car empowers people. in 10 years every car in the UK will be tracked, receiving GPS and transmitting position via the GSM network, leading the way to "congestion charging". We'll still pay the same ammount of tax, just in a different (more inefficent) way.
The hurt motorist ideology of the left isn't the answer. Do you really think people like being stuck on the M25 every morning? The answer is improove Public, and private, transport with proceeds from transport taxation, and raise income tax so EVERYONE pays their fair share for the NHS and social security.
Oh, and for the record I dont own a car, and I walk to work every morning (when not being run over by bikes on the pavement)
As for comparing sectarian violence in Ireland with unhinged relegious extremists... well you obviously haven't got a clue what you are talking about.
Yes, cause with the IRA (american funded), it doesn't affect America. America couldnt give a fuck if 2 British kids get blown up, but as soon as they get a bloody nose it's all "the world has changed, waaaaa"
(See journal for mor eof my thoughts on the fuckers)
Sounds unlikley.
Sounds likely.
Assuming that human beings can affect the global climate (compared with something like major volcanos, or the sun) sounds much more unlikely to be honest.
CO2 at low level vs. high level doesn't make much difference (even if manmade CO2 is responsible for the earth's increasing temperature)
As for air polution, ever the worst places is well within "good" levels. PM10's are pretty bad. Main culprit? Diesels - i.e. busses in towns.
The land is already owned by the road. Roads (average 20m wide, being very conservitive) take up 7,500 sq km of the UK, or 3% of the land area.
Want to say "this could be used by <BLAH>"? Farmland is a much bigger "cost" in that case.
The const of building new roads inlcudes paying for the compulsary purchase orders. Same as car parks, airports and the CTRL.
As for deaths (RTAs), even at £1 million per death, thats only £3bn ($5bn) a year. What about deaths you got when everyone used horse and cart? Horse feces ain't the most hygenic thing to put in the middle of residential streets.
As for polution in general. A fully loaded car is more efficent per passanger mile then a fully loaded train.
but most diesel technology is actually cleaner than gasoline.
Arent PM10's higher?
Your hydrogen-powered Prius may run as pure and clean as fresh snow, but if a coal-fired generator is supplying the electricity needed to electrolyze water and make hydrogen, then it's all for naught.
Yes, because a tiny oilfired engine in a car can be as efficent and clean as a massive coal/oil/gas fired power station. Not ot mention reducing concentrated polution in cities
If you are talking about Polution per passanger mile, a typical british car at full loading causes less polution per passanger mile then a typical british train at full loading.
People of course should be free to choose their vehicle. And pay for the damage they cause. A 4 ton "car" causes 256 time as much damage to the road as a 1 ton car. Therefore the 4 ton car should pay 256 time more. If the roads were run properly as a buisness that's how things would be.
In the UK it's the other way arround. Gas tax and other car taxes raise about $70bn for the exchequer each year, and only about $15bn is spent on roads and public transport combined (about 50:50).
If the spent all the money raised from petrol tax and VED on transport - 50:50, we'd have a highway network to rival germany, and a train network to rival japan, and still have money left over. $200 billion over the next 5 years could pay for a lot of PT infrastructure inprovements.
The main congestion in the UK comes from
1) Peak time traffic. PT is not a viable solution as the trains (commuter and long distance) are already overflowing. PT sucks at peak flow management too, as the trains then run empty for the rest of the day. Solution? More train lines going to places that people want, and parkway stations. Drive from low density area to parkway station, then 100mph non stop to the city center.
2) Accidents. One major accident on the M6 at junction 14 and the entire North West - Midlands corridor dies. This can be mittigated not by expanding the width of highways (rarely works, as in the UK you can only pass on the outside, no undertaking, and doris always sticks in the lane next to the outside lane, and lorrys always stick in all the lanes "overtaking" each other. Solution, germanise. Double the number of motorways to allow redundancy and dynamic routing in the network
Easilly affordable if the car related taxes paid for it. They dont though, they subsidise our $450bn ($7,500 per person) social security program, which should be paid for through taxes that affect everyone.
Yes, 6,406,296km of roads across 9,631,418 sq km. 665m of roads per square km.
Compare to the UK, 371,913km of roads over 244,820 sqkm, 1520m or road per square km - twice as many roads per area.
Gross weight - Bike and rider
Actually he's not. He's saying "everyone should drive hummers", which is just as bad as saying "everyone should drive smart cars"
And a bike, or a motorbike, Which is even more vulnerable?
(For you hummer drivers out there, a pushbike is a human propelled vehicle with two wheels that, in cities, is pretty much the fastest form of transport for A-B you can have, faster then Motorbikes)
Just tax them at the damage they cause to the road. If a 1 ton car is taxed for $10, a hummer should be $10k (damage is proportinal to axle weight^4 IIRC)
will be a problem as more efficient, lighter cars share the road with Hummers.???
Dont know about america, but in the rest of the world we have 44 ton trucks, 3 ton vans, 2 ton cars, and 200lb bikes sharing the road, and we seem to cope pretty well.
Should have taken the Jubilee line
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Yeah, and 15 years of it
SCO Rules. Honest.
Can I have that $6 up front?
Don't trust anyone over 300,000. ;)
Dont trust anyone over 200,000, they're all bad, trust me.
Hey, the £ sign finally works!
Two things to say about this.
1) You took something of value,
No, he didn't. Taking something means that the person you take it from no longer has it.