...Australia has had a "Luxury Car Tax" for years...
...it seems they are emulating us, which is a terrible idea...
...ostensibly this tax was to protect sales of Australian made cars over foreign ones...
...but there are no longer any cars made in Australia, and the tax remains, surprise...
...disappointing to see the factual errors and spin on display here...
...especially since there may be real environmental concerns to address...
...you could make a great documentary based on the reality of all industrial land users...
...a public broadcaster should know better...
...concrete is quicker...
...but if you want large areas of uninterrupted space (no big concrete columns/pilons)...
...then you want steel, which has a better strength to weight ratio...
...both have pros and cons...
...climate change deniers...
...won't put their mouth over a tailpipe and breath deep because they know it would kill them...
...will insist that emissions from billions of taipipes spewing into the atmosphere for over a hundred years will have no negative consequences whatsoever...
...are they...
...in my country, nobody ever asks...
"What if I get shot just for buying a truck?"
...in your country, people do ask that, apparently...
...making your countries attitudes and policies about firearms, a bit shit, compared to mine...
...if you held a vote about whether people like getting shot...
...you could always try not selling guns to lunatics...
...not basing an economy around arms manufacturing...
...not glorifying the use of guns through media...
...well the battery manufacturing is a clear partnership arrangement...
...they need as many batteries as they can get so they teamed up...
...with Tesla shouldering a lot of the R&D so Panasonic, LG Chem, CATL don't have to...
...also you could use this same rational against legacy auto...
...i would do this...
...but not sure it would survive the trip back across the Pacific...
...even if I had Sandy Munro make some modifications first...