STR - optimistic or delusional?

Beat ya to it Mae.

IP lookups are fun as well.

I’ll send you an email directly to show you how it’s done.

Please, please, *please* don’t get OpenYourMind started on oil. We have to work with him, and we are a captive audience!

Mael, really? Shit. I was hoping that address would be safe from spam for a long long time.

Nice, expand it with more info for the less informed and post it as it’s own story about Car use in the ACT.

RandomGit, I will happily accept your challenge.

As a general comment I have only ever mentioned ‘peak oil’ as it relates to discussions on cycling infrastructure within Canberra.

A more general comment would be that oil at a sustained $63 (current price) equates to roughly $1.33 a litre. Given Canberran’s high percentage of car use, this is current and topical to Canberrans I would have said – particularly given this original discussion thread is about building a new road.

The scary thing is I read that and had your email in 5 seconds. (the computer is running slow)

Here’s to unwanted emails ref oil ;P

*yay*

OYM, come up with a peice on Oil related directly to Canberra and post it up. Show your guts.

OYM, I would love for you to email me your full manifesto on the subject …but I seem to have lost my email address 😉

Ahhh, you all love it!

I can talk some more about the process of oil exploration and extraction if you really want me to 🙂

You’re making a good point, Maelinar – it’s just the mere mention of oil in any post generally sets OYM off onto a tangent about the evils of world energy policy.

No worries 🙂

I say use it till it’s gone. I’m all right, and that’s all that matters.

Once it’s gone we can finally get into some productivity instead of the social rut we are currently in.

If you take oil out of the equation however, you will note that the government are actually PAYING the populace out of revenue that they are gathering.

that’s what I was on about.

Thanks a lot, Maelinar.

You’ve given OpenYourMind an excuse to start banging on about oil for the umpteenth time.

This is getting very off the STR topic, but Alaskan oil is an interesting and current topic. There is an area of the ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) which is estimated to contain 10billion barrels of oil. American oil interests would dearly love to explore and drill this area, but they face an uphill battle against environmentalists protecting a very delicate area.

Yesterday oil touch $64 a barrel and Bush released an energy bill which contained no immediate hurt for Americans. One of the items glaringly omitted in the bill was a decision on ANWR.

That would link in extremely effectively with something that I have been researching recently based loosely upon some great chap who while in a position of power organised MONEY FOR THE INDIANS !!!

A brief description follows:

All sectors of Alaska’s economy are natural resource-based. Oil transported by the Alaskan Pipeline, from Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez, is of greatest importance to the state’s economy but indications are that the supply might be drying up. Currently, oil revenues supply 85% of the state budget. Every Alaskan resident receives a yearly payment of about $1,000 from an oil-funded “permanent fund dividend.”

Now I wouldn’t mind paying exorbitant parking fines et al if I could reasonably expect to take it from money the government gave me.

Obviously the worse I parked, the less I would get to keep.

Instead of higher and higher corporate salaries, perhaps the local government could be looking at reallocating some of their rent revenue from the people paying market rent in Yarralumla towards a similar scheme.

To be fair, Hargreaves probably shouldn’t be counting his chickens before they’ve hatched. Pre-empting the court’s decision does smack somewhat of the arrogance for which the current government is fast becoming famous.

That said, I’ve got my fingers and toes crossed that the Federal Court bounces STR, and the government subsequently sues them for every penny that bunch of nitwits own.

I find it amusing in the same territory that big business abounds to the tune of local government or national capital authority at their whim, with both sides bending over backwards to get them on their side, that a bunch of poncy wankers in what isn’t even a posh suburb can hold up crucial development.

That’s witholding the obvious information that proper planning would have had the infrastructure constructed prior to development, but us humans are a bit used to knee-jerk retrospective decision making.

God, please, let this selfish luddite madness end once and for all.