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Master Cruncher FRANCE Joined: Jun 12, 2009 Post Count: 2369 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Very tricky issue for the second-hand market
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David Autumns
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Just a second
----------------------------------------These cars are some of the most efficient on the market Did anyone ever believe the MPG figures claimed by manufacturers? If you did then you are naive. My Audi is not a gas guzzling smoking monster It's a frugal user of natural resources and this is the result of progress.  |
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David Autumns
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/28/sah...tcy-idUSL5N11Y1NT20150928
----------------------------------------"Producing steel profitably in Britain is difficult due to cheap imports and a strong currency, plus relatively high energy costs and "green" taxes imposed on heavy industry that are some of the highest in the world" Why is this ? See above Handily turning off industry in the UK in the run up to a bleak winter without the Oomph any more to power the industry above Why is this? See above |
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KLiK
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Just a second These cars are some of the most efficient on the market Did anyone ever believe the MPG figures claimed by manufacturers? If you did then you are naive. My Audi is not a gas guzzling smoking monster It's a frugal user of natural resources and this is the result of progress. a Golf 1 had a 3-4liter consumption on 100km! I'm not sure that your's is that great...  |
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David Autumns
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It will do 20.5km to the litre easily
----------------------------------------That's none too shabby for a 148BHP 2 Litre Engine. There are more frugal engines but none that will make you smile so much on so little But if VW's brands including Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, SEAT, Skoda are the villian's while GM and Ford are the Saint's then so be it  |
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David Autumns
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The September result is in and the average temperature from 2438 NOAA Weather Stations around the Globe was 19.357C - the warmest September of the series
---------------------------------------- The average temperature October 2014 through to the end of September 2015 was 12.840C, an increase of 0.058C over the yearly average to the end of August. Taking us back to a yearly average temperature not seen since March 2013  Here's another forum friendly sized graph that updates now every 4 hours due to the sheer number of points it now needs to plot  The graphs above are (at this moment in time) the result of 102,910,941 individual temperature measurements taken around the Globe from (the same set of) NOAA Weather Stations since the beginning of 2011  On average every 1.5 seconds another temperature reading is added to the database .... Dave [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Oct 1, 2015 1:39:22 AM] |
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KLiK
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It will do 20.5km to the litre easily That's none too shabby for a 148BHP 2 Litre Engine. There are more frugal engines but none that will make you smile so much on so little But if VW's brands including Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, SEAT, Skoda are the villian's while GM and Ford are the Saint's then so be it lets not "pre-judge" on that! & wait for the end of German investigation... |
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David Autumns
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David Autumns
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysect...h-off-keep-lights-on.html
----------------------------------------Total ideological idiocy See thread title See first post and when it was written See above for the reason why Consider why SSI Redcar was closed http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-ne...-final-batch-red-10264168 Throw in this http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/tr...-months-of-snow-1-7511317 and it will be goodbye UK Number Crunchers Rest assured |
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Looks like your days are numbered David. Instead of science (you know, that method of investigation based on observation) being used to allow us to better understand the world around us, the courts will do it instead.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/s...h-sceptics-philippe-sands So it's not just politicians, who always act in our best interests telling us that 'the debate is over', we may now have the courts telling us 'no, really - the debate is over, or you're a criminal'. Then the French foreign minister summoned the country's main weather forecasters and urged them to mention 'climate chaos' in their forecasts. One of the forecasters involved, Philippe Verdier, suggested that those who didn't tow the line would be vilified. He didn't tow the line and got sacked. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/eur...oning-climate-change.html The Register had a good interview with Freeman Dyson, the scientist who advised bomber command during WW2, was a contemporary of Einstein at Princeton and has advised the US government on a wide range of scientific and technical issues. He's friends with the people who built the first climate models - they were supposed to be used to better understand the roles that an assortment of variables might play on the climate. They were investigative tools, and no suggestion was ever made that they might be predictive. You can read the interview here... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/11/freeman_dyson_interview/ So just in time for the Paris summit, where the answer to everything will be to tax us more, we must bid farewell. Let us know where you end up - I might come visit. Does baking a hacksaw into a cake still work? |
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