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apollo11, Apr 9, 10:45pm
For you, Bill I'll take a guess. Dementia?

apollo11, Apr 9, 11:10pm
Lol. Only because you deserve it.

alowishes, Apr 10, 12:05am
So when it rains it’s OK to use the gas guzzler V8!

alowishes, Apr 10, 12:08am
Cos EV users are cheap more than environmentally conscious and will cringe at paying RUC same as a diesel user pays?

sr2, Apr 10, 12:12am
Transpower are only responsible for power transmission?

harm_less, Apr 10, 12:27am
If diesel was as cheap as electricity that might be the case but it's obviously not, plus the almost total lack of maintenance costs for EVs.

harm_less, Apr 10, 12:29am
Not something we're going to have to worry about for a while yet by the sounds of it. https://evsandbeyond.co.nz/ev-ruc-exemption-extension-likely/

tygertung, Apr 10, 2:51am
Use whatever you want, I just use a waterproof jacket.

V8s are pretty boring though, if I wanted something fast in a car, I'd rather a 4 cylinder turbo, but otherwise maybe a 2 stroke motorbike, or maybe even a small turbo four stroke.

But really, I don't care much about the rain, it's only water. I prefer not to be weak.

apollo11, Apr 10, 3:06am
Tygertug, a teenage boy appears to have hacked your TM profile.

gunna-1, Apr 10, 3:23am
Dirty cars meh, more scrapeing around the edges, or power guzzling electric cars, i go out in the rain in some heavy boots and a jacket because there is usualy no one elce walking to bother me, we dont need cars, let the sun set on car and bike enthusiests and get the youngens walking in the weather, i enjoy the hell out of it, its great, five million people in "clean cars" na, they are boreing tin boxes that we "must drive" that we must get out of the mind set of.

joanie32, Apr 10, 3:41am
I had a chuckle at our PMs virtue signaling last week.
Her and a couple of like minded folk took a diesel train to Huntly, where they are burning more coal every day, so she could take a selfy surrounded by bottled water and other single use plastic items.
This is part of her plan regarding the “climate emergency” apparently.

gazzat22, Apr 10, 7:38pm
#62 .If she found a cure for cancer you would still find something to complain about.It was a way of Publicising the fact that the service was finally open which it should have been many years ago.

gazzat22, Apr 10, 8:16pm
The maintenance on even a small aircraft is somewhat more than the average privately owned car and not a one person job.A totally irrelevant comment.!

sr2, Apr 10, 8:33pm
Not sure what you mean; (re: #4) the Green Party's excessive air travel is in airliners?

tygertung, Apr 10, 8:43pm
Airliners are proportionately much cheaper to run per hour than light aircraft.

sr2, Apr 10, 9:02pm
By "proportionately" do you mean per passenger Km?

bill-robinson, Apr 10, 10:50pm
have been and looked at an electric plane at ardmore and spoke to the developers and engineers involved. they said the biggest problem they had was getting flght duration to cover emergencies ie your destination airfeild is closed due to weather and your nearest alternative site is an hour away. the test plane they had could fly for 2 hours i think they said, and they could not increase that until better batteries came on the market that had aproval for aircraft use.

tygertung, Apr 11, 12:33am
Both. Cheaper per passenger amount and cheaper per distance travelled too, as they're much faster.

You can rent out a Cessna 152 for say $150 an hour, and you can get a wet lease on an A320 which includes crew for say $2500 an hour.

A320 could take 180 passengers.

Cessna 152 could take one pilot and one passenger.

https://www.avibroker.com/leaseavailability.asp

sr2, Apr 11, 3:38am
LOL, I think we might be agreeing with each other!

tygertung, Apr 11, 7:13am
Yes, however a Cessna 172 is only a little bit more expensive than a 152, maybe $180 an hour for example, and can take a total of four people.

marte, Apr 11, 7:39am
Is she converting it to run on used plastic bottles rather than coal?
That would solve five problems at the same time.

apollo11, Apr 11, 8:00am
It's do-able.

sr2, Apr 11, 9:39am
Yeah. nah!

(I did a few projects for Flightline Aviation a few years back).

gunna-1, Apr 11, 4:27pm
Why do people need bottled water, just erect some more water fountains and fix the water, they are safe aslong as you dont suck on the gob piece while you are drinking.

tygertung, Apr 11, 4:54pm
It seems that the AirNZ flying club was cheaper than other flying clubs in NZ.

https://www.wanganuiaeroclub.co.nz/menu However this outfit in the USA is cheaper for aircraft rental: http://www.stcharlesflyingservice.com/aircraft-rental-instru
ction-rates/