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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2100 on: February 08, 2023, 10:12:48 AM »
Can someone please explain to me, why Diesel is nearly 30c a Litre dearer than most forms of unleaded petrol ..../quote]did anyone ever figure this out... been a while now.
Diesel in Australia is now Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel which requires additional refining and then an additional process to add lubricants. The old days it was a by product of refining leaded petrol.
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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2101 on: February 08, 2023, 06:46:27 PM »
Piece of trivia for you. About 20 yrs or so ago I was given a fuel industry magazine which stated New York used more diesel a month than Australia used a year.Side note Australia is storing extra diesel in the USA, they'll let us have it if things go belly up won't they. I was showing that article to a fertiliser Rep, and he told me same thing with fertiliser except it was with a chinese company that was using more fertiliser than all of Australia, and farmers here wanted a good deal on their purchase.They don't even know we're here except when it comes to our mineral wealth.
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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2102 on: February 09, 2023, 07:32:10 AM »
Side note Australia is storing extra diesel in the USA, they'll let us have it if things go belly up won't they.

& if we do need it,because something like, you know a war starts in East Asia / Northern Pacific, then there'll be absolutely no possible issues about a constant stream of super-tankers crossing the Pacific delivering fuel from the US to Oz ::)
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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2103 on: February 09, 2023, 08:59:02 AM »
Piece of trivia for you. About 20 yrs or so ago I was given a fuel industry magazine which stated New York used more diesel a month than Australia used a year.Side note Australia is storing extra diesel in the USA, they'll let us have it if things go belly up won't they. I was showing that article to a fertiliser Rep, and he told me same thing with fertiliser except it was with a chinese company that was using more fertiliser than all of Australia, and farmers here wanted a good deal on their purchase.They don't even know we're here except when it comes to our mineral wealth.

Yup, that's what gives me the dirts about our overseas focused media (and politicians)

There is zero news about Australia when you travel overseas.


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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2105 on: February 23, 2023, 10:06:37 AM »
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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2106 on: February 23, 2023, 10:20:48 AM »
Just don’t take drugs, solves the problem.
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« Reply #2107 on: February 23, 2023, 11:58:32 AM »
Don't think a single one of them had a gun held to their head and told to take that crap
Sorry but I don't see why people feel the need to do that stuff
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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2108 on: February 23, 2023, 12:46:22 PM »
As bad as that Shit from Siberia. Krokodil. It comes from mixing codine, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, red phosphorus and petrol. Who the frig comes up with this crap. And just what state of mind or desperation would make someone want to take it? Apparently it has a similar reaction on the skin to krank.

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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2109 on: February 23, 2023, 05:54:00 PM »
As bad as that Shit from Siberia. Krokodil. It comes from mixing codine, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, red phosphorus and petrol. Who the frig comes up with this crap.
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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2110 on: February 23, 2023, 05:56:46 PM »
Just don’t take drugs, solves the problem.
Get ya kids into camping & 4x4's,
They won't be able to afford drugs.
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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2111 on: February 24, 2023, 03:22:38 PM »
dont hear much about this anymore... great initiative... any clubs involved?
https://www.cleanup.org.au/
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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2112 on: February 24, 2023, 06:08:01 PM »
dont hear much about this anymore... great initiative... any clubs involved?
https://www.cleanup.org.au/
We use to be.
Cheers for the reminder that we have contact NPWS & state Forests.


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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2113 on: February 26, 2023, 08:51:58 PM »
dont hear much about this anymore... great initiative... any clubs involved?
https://www.cleanup.org.au/
Mate, Not Cleanup Australia,
Although our 4wd club is involved with NPWS NSW,  in the maintenance of a hostric Homestead. Cunglebung.
Our 4wd Club, The Grafton & Districts 4wd Club, ate fortunate enough to have keys to behind locked gates. We need to notify NPWS of our intention to perform these maintenance days, mostly mowing, whipper snippering, removing anything that may become a fire hazard around the dwellings/huts.
This weekend, we were given permission to camp there.
We were also given the ok to explore the area within this section of the Locked area.
Not far from the Homestead we came across another set of stock yards, an awesome water hole for a swim and a great little camp ground.
Unfortunately the key we have, wouldn't allow us to exist closer to Cunglebung Rd, we'll be contacting NPWS to acquire access through this gate.


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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2114 on: February 27, 2023, 09:21:41 AM »
Mate, Not Cleanup Australia,
Although our 4wd club is involved with NPWS NSW,  in the maintenance of a hostric Homestead. Cunglebung.
Our 4wd Club, The Grafton & Districts 4wd Club, ate fortunate enough to have keys to behind locked gates. We need to notify NPWS of our intention to perform these maintenance days, mostly mowing, whipper snippering, removing anything that may become a fire hazard around the dwellings/huts.
This weekend, we were given permission to camp there.
We were also given the ok to explore the area within this section of the Locked area.
Not far from the Homestead we came across another set of stock yards, an awesome water hole for a swim and a great little camp ground.
Unfortunately the key we have, wouldn't allow us to exist closer to Cunglebung Rd, we'll be contacting NPWS to acquire access through this gate.


our club used to do similar, but the hut was close to the road, and bogans used to get in and smash it up, even winched it off its foundations once... tyre marks on tables etc.. .we spent 2 weeks fixing it, and it got ruined on the Monday after, so we gave up.
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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2115 on: February 27, 2023, 10:59:33 AM »
Hmm, How sad to hear. :(

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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2116 on: March 11, 2023, 03:37:41 PM »
Saw this one his morning: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/orcamp007/acl-camp-stove-powerful-ultra-lightweight-portable-stove

The idea of the stove sounds OK (although I'm not sure that it would be any safer ???), but it raises an obvious question: Why aren't you doing the same thing to the vehicle fuel ???
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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2117 on: March 14, 2023, 07:49:50 AM »
The idea of the stove sounds OK (although I'm not sure that it would be any safer ???), but it raises an obvious question: Why aren't you doing the same thing to the vehicle fuel ???

Judging by the colour of the flame, it looks like it runs a bit rich. Normal alcohol stoves burn with an almost invisible blue flame.

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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2118 on: March 14, 2023, 08:18:02 AM »
Not sure if I'd be happy with a glass bottle of ethanol floating around in the camper. Looks a bit bulky too. I think I'll stick with my jetboil.

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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2119 on: March 14, 2023, 07:49:50 PM »
Not sure if I'd be happy with a glass bottle of ethanol floating around in the camper. Looks a bit bulky too. I think I'll stick with my jetboil.

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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2120 on: March 16, 2023, 02:54:58 PM »
WTF? Albury is town of  year? better than Merimbula? or 100,000 other places?
https://www.news.com.au/travel/australian-holidays/unexpected-spot-takes-out-aussie-town-of-the-year-award/news-story/c8be14a2d13ea9917dd403cff264c73c


1. Albury, NSW
2. Bundaberg, QLD
3. New Norfolk, TAS
4. Port Lincoln, SA
5. Ballarat, VIC
6. Merimbula, NSW
7. Toowoomba, QLD
8. Dunsborough, WA
9. Orange, NSW
10. Echuca, VIC
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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2121 on: March 16, 2023, 07:00:46 PM »
WTF? Albury is town of  year? better than Merimbula? or 100,000 other places?
https://www.news.com.au/travel/australian-holidays/unexpected-spot-takes-out-aussie-town-of-the-year-award/news-story/c8be14a2d13ea9917dd403cff264c73c


1. Albury, NSW
2. Bundaberg, QLD
3. New Norfolk, TAS
4. Port Lincoln, SA
5. Ballarat, VIC
6. Merimbula, NSW
7. Toowoomba, QLD
8. Dunsborough, WA
9. Orange, NSW
10. Echuca, VIC

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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2122 on: March 16, 2023, 07:11:13 PM »
Why is it that we are getting nuclear submarines, but we can't have nuclear power stations.
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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2123 on: March 16, 2023, 07:29:18 PM »
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Why is it that we are getting nuclear submarines, but we can't have nuclear power stations.
Serious question, why cant they be built in AU...?? the $$ and jobs would be welcome.
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Re: The Random Question of the Day Thread...
« Reply #2124 on: March 16, 2023, 07:40:30 PM »
Because according to the Americans we don't have a nuclear industry or infrastructure in Australia. That was the reason up to now why America was reluctant to provide us with the subs. The open pool light water reactor at Lucas Hieghts (which is still operating today) apparently doesn't count as an industry. As a sweetener to the deal though, we do get to store all their nuclear waste. Is that the deal of the century or what?

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