[LINK] Gridlocked cities to cost more than $53 billion a year by 2031 without action: Infrastructure Australia

[Frank O'Connor]

Mmmm …

If cars ran on crap (and that’s quite possible - methane anyway), and asphalt was made from crap or derivatives of same (and again, that is technically quite possible), and 'crap producers' provided the funding for the incumbent political parties in pretty much the same way as they are provided at the moment … we could honestly say that we have 'Shit Politicians'.

As it is, that applies anyway … but only in a metaphorical sense.            :)

Just my 2 cents worth …
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> On 23 May 2015, at 11:14 am, Craig Sanders <cas at taz.net.au> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:29:58AM +1000, Frank O'Connor wrote:
>> But in their world, the internal combustion engine (invented 150 years
>> ago) is the peak of technology, and all this new fangled stuff will
>> simply go away.
> 
> it's a lot simpler than that. the fact that they're technological
> ignoramuses is irrelevant.
> 
> the only relevant factor is that there are huge corporations wanting to
> build roads so that they can make enormous amounts of money from the
> government initially and then from the public from tolls...tolls on
> roads that we, the people, paid for but they, the corporations, own.
> 
> look at every thing this government has done or plans to do, every
> decision they make and it's starkly obvious - what big business wants,
> big business gets.
> 
> craig
> 
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> craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>
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