Cyclists waste petrol

On 10/02/2018 04:49 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:14:02 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/30/2018 09:13 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 02:11:54 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/29/2018 03:41 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

Cost to the customer should dictate ones further away will be less
likely to be bought, so I guess they were different carpets.

Presumably. They were all 12' rolls so I never saw the working side.
Furniture was the same deal. There still are furniture factories in the
south eastern US while most of the furniture I loaded on the west coast
was from Asia.

Other products weren't so easy to rationalize. I don't know about
the UK
but the Sunday papers (when people still read the Sunday papers) have a
lot of colorful advertising brochures and other crap that most people
strip out and use to wrap garbage. I picked up a lot of those in
Boulder
CO to take to Baltimore MD, which is about 1600 miles. Nobody on the
east coast can print useless stuff?

The whole scheme depends on cheap transportation / cheap fuel. Keep
those container ships and trucks rolling!

If your government put as much fuel tax on it as ours did, that wouldn't
be happening. A US gallon of gas here is $6.16 US. How does that
compare to what you pay?

It's been running around $2.97 all summer although I think it's up to
$2.99 now.

https://www.gasbuddy.com/USA

This state has a 27 cents / gallon gasoline tax so it's on the higher
end of the range. Distribution costs play a little part in the price
spread but it's the state and local taxes that make up the bulk of the
difference.

California is the flyer. The tax is 30 cents but because of state laws
they get special, super deluxe, designer blends. Washington has a 45
cent tax which explains their cost. Hawaii is obviously a distribution
problem.

Ours is an 80p per LITRE tax. If yours is still that expensive with so
little tax, you must VERY expensive gas before tax.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...und-the-world/

But after tax... Distribution costs also factor in. As you've pointed
out you could drop Great Britain in the northeast corner of this state
where there's nothing but a few Indians and prairie dogs.

On 10/02/2018 04:50 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:11:04 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:



"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 03:13:46 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/29/2018 03:48 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

Finally, if you live in an RV you get to keep it. And modify it.
Lot
rent is quite a bit less than rental properties.

I take it RV means campervan? Those depreciate way faster than
houses.

If you don't plan on selling it who cares? Besides, as you argued for
automobiles, buy them used after they depreciate.

Still a lot of repairs to do, like rust, and the engine of course.

Aluminum doesn't rust. RV's also include trailers so there is no
engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_vehicle

My brother had a motorhome but he towed a Toyota yacht tender behind
it.
That's a very common practice so you have a vehicle smaller than a bus
to drive around. With the trailer, you can drop the trailer and you
have
the tow vehicle for driving around.

There are quite a few full-time RVers in the US. Some are retirees,
others are younger and find employment as they go.

https://www.outsideonline.com/185778...re-you-park-it

When I hit the road it was in a pickup similar to the 3rd photo, rather
than a van or some of the pickups with larger camper shells. It was
inconspicuous and could go anyplace. I wandered around the western US
for a year, going to Arizona for the winter months, and then spent a
year as a Forest Service volunteer. It's an interesting life; you learn
to travel light and improvise.

I don't understand why they're still using steel on any vehicle,

Because its much cheaper than the alternatives
and isnt hard to treat so it doesn't rust.

Yet all cars rust. After the warranty period though.

Only if you live in a swamp.

On 10/02/2018 04:51 PM, Rod Speed wrote:


"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:37:49 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/30/2018 11:08 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
Yes. Generally called spark plug wires in this country. They may be a
thing of the past. My Toyota doesn't have any but I don't know how
common that is.

It will, but they're concealed in one tube.

No concealment on the Toyota. It has Coil-on-Plug ignition.

https://troubleshootmyvehicle.com/to...nition-coils-1


Why do they tend to put the coils on the plugs now instead of having
one big coil?

Because it works better not distributing the high voltage thru the
distributor.
And because it works better with modern computer controlled engines.

This should be fun, explaining it to someone who by their own admission
hasn't a clue of how an IC engine works...

"rbowman" wrote in message
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On 10/02/2018 05:01 PM, Rod Speed wrote:


"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:26:26 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/30/2018 10:00 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 03:12:20 +0100, rbowman
wrote:

On 09/10/2018 12:53 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:


Are your roads littered with speed bumps? I go over perhaps 200 a
day.

That cinches it. No trip to the UK for me. Some of our dirt roads
have
speed bumps, aka small boulders, but I've never seen them other
than on
private roads.

Round here they put them in the stupidest of places, for example 10
yards from a junction, where nobody could possibly be speeding anyway.

And apparently they cost £10,000 each to install including paperwork.


We have various 'traffic calming' schemes like roundabouts and bulbouts
but speed bumps would really **** off the snowplow crews to say nothing
of the cops.

Even some of the semi-private areas are getting rid of them. I hit one
of the damn things on my bicycle. The sun was in my eyes and I didn't
see it coming so I taco'd my front wheel and did a face plant. I was
not
happy.

You should have attempted to sue the council (or whatever you call
them over there). Causing injury to a cyclist can't be allowed surely?

I hope I one day catch an old lady tripping over one on my dashcam.
I've seen it happen before, a pensioner crosses the road and trips on
the stupid thing. But I need proof.

Further north, they have bollards on the narrowing things (we call
them chicanes,

Nope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicane

I assume that's what you refer to as a bulbout).

Nope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_extension


https://missoulian.com/news/local/bi...cc4c03286.html

These are the worst of both. The theory is pedestrians will be out in the
street, visible, and have a shorter path.

Yeah, we have those outside one of our primary/grade schools.

They suck for bicycles since you're forced out in the traffic lane, and
are difficult for trucks and buses to navigate.

There are also micro-roundabouts. Basically you take a 4-way intersection
of residential streets, build a little round island in the middle,

Yeah, we have lots of those.

and plant flowers.

Nothing in the middle with ours, only with the big ones.

The first moving van in the area runs over the thing since it's impossible
to navigate around it with anything bigger than a mini-van.

Ours are low enough so that trucks and vans can
just drive of them, with a shallow curb so they
don't even have to slow down to do that.

"rbowman" wrote in message
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On 10/02/2018 04:51 PM, Rod Speed wrote:


"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:37:49 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 09/30/2018 11:08 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
Yes. Generally called spark plug wires in this country. They may be a
thing of the past. My Toyota doesn't have any but I don't know how
common that is.

It will, but they're concealed in one tube.

No concealment on the Toyota. It has Coil-on-Plug ignition.

https://troubleshootmyvehicle.com/to...nition-coils-1


Why do they tend to put the coils on the plugs now instead of having
one big coil?

Because it works better not distributing the high voltage thru the
distributor.
And because it works better with modern computer controlled engines.

This should be fun, explaining it to someone who by their own admission
hasn't a clue of how an IC engine works...

Yeah, bet he doesn't even know what a distributor does.

On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 21:33:07 -0600, lowbrowman, the endlessly driveling
senile idiot, blabbered again:


https://www.statista.com/statistics/...und-the-world/

But after tax... Distribution costs also factor in. As you've pointed
out you could drop Great Britain in the northeast corner of this state
where there's nothing but a few Indians and prairie dogs.

As I've pointed out repeatedly, you ARE a sick troll-feeding senile idiot!

On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 20:46:57 -0600, lowbrowman, the endlessly driveling
senile idiot, blabbered again:



It eliminates the

The good thing about seniles like you, lowbrowman, is that YOU will soon be
eliminated!

On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 15:47:20 +1000, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again:

and plant flowers.

Nothing in the middle with ours, only with the big ones.

The first moving van in the area runs over the thing since it's impossible
to navigate around it with anything bigger than a mini-van.

Ours are low enough so that trucks and vans can
just drive of them, with a shallow curb so they
don't even have to slow down to do that.

Looks like you've found another senile asshole like you to have a senile
"conversation" with, eh, senile lowbrowman? Just what is with you and your
addiction to the most abnormal posters, you notorious sucker of troll cock?
LOL

On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 20:59:04 -0600, lowbrowman, the endlessly driveling
senile idiot, blabbered again:


You should have attempted to sue the council (or whatever you call them
over there). Causing injury to a cyclist can't be allowed surely?

I'm not big on lawyers... The counter would be that I was on private
property.

We know, you are big on sucking unwashed filthy troll cock, lowbrow!

On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 15:49:30 +1000, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again:


This should be fun, explaining it to someone who by their own admission
hasn't a clue of how an IC engine works...

Yeah, bet he doesn't even know what a distributor does.

Yeah, I bet BOTH of you seniles got NOBODY in RL to talk to. It just keeps
SHOWING somehow! BG

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Bill Wright to Rot Speed:
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