Energy Efficiency

Smart State … Well Beattie jumped before he was pushed (into a quarter of a million $ job all expenses paid by the Queensland public to sell the beneifts of Americans doing business in OZ; what with for christ’s sake, the USA is bankrupt) and will Anna Bligh hand the posioned chalice to Paul Lucas (and what is her payoff at our expense ?).

So what have we got to look forward to apart from paying an extra 9.2 cents per litre for petrol from July 1st 2009.

The incompotent RACQ (long a supporter of Labor government) went through the motions with a pitiful 50,000 signature petition (what with 4 million of us living in Queensland ?) and they say the price rise equates to an extra $172 a year for a 6 cylinder car, but so what …!

The reality is that we never got the full benefit of the subsidy anyway.

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What’s the difference between America and Australia?

Not much, we’re both highly dependant on oil (mostly from outside our country) and both our ‘leaders’ are borrowing money hand over fist from wherever it can be got and little prospect to pay it back.

When Captain kRudd is asked how we are to pay it back, he is unable to answer other than to say that Treasury modelling – based on an assumed economic growth that will take place in his second term as Prime Minister (if the people are silly enough to vote for / trust him again) – will be able to in about 6 years but it could go out to 2022.

Economic growth is measured by GDP (gross domestic product – goods and services sold in Australia) however; GDP has been artificially manipulated for years by both government and corporations alike. The all time favourite terminology I like to borrow from marketing is ‘value adding’, whereby a company adds stuff to your purchases with inflated prices. [For my regular readers you will recall the cardboard tubing analogy].

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The world population is around 6,500,000,000; since late 2003, the WHO has confirmed 387 human cases of H5N1 also known as avian influenza or Bird Flu, which resulted in a total 245 deaths.

Tamiflu was developed to protect people against bird flu.  The Australian Government says it’s ordered 10 million doses of a yet to be named – as it is yet to be discovered – Swine Flu protection.

And just like a shop-keeper changing the use-by-date of food, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved ‘an extension to the shelf life’ for Tamiflu (oseltamivir) from five to seven years, when stored below 25 C.

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