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General Discussion Area / Re: Giving Back to OOF
« on: 16 June 2008, 18:59:49 »Quote
Now I know where he got his screen name from ... !!!!!
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When you're as ugly as me you've got to be Optimistic there's no other choice
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General Discussion Area / Giving Back to OOF
« on: 16 June 2008, 18:47:47 »
Having reaches the dizzy heights of Junior Member I feel I should give something back to the OOF, which has supplied me with friendly chat technical knowhow and last but not least humour.
So I propose this. OOF supplies me with a mint condition 3.2 Elite complete with petrol tax insurance and maintenance for 1 year, and I will drive it around complete with OOF insignia enblazoned on the car, completely free of charge, in order to promote the Forum.
This is a selfless act on my part, but I would be willing to do it.
If an Elite was unavailable I would be willing to do the same task in a mint condition Lotus Carlton.
Can't say fairer than that.
So I propose this. OOF supplies me with a mint condition 3.2 Elite complete with petrol tax insurance and maintenance for 1 year, and I will drive it around complete with OOF insignia enblazoned on the car, completely free of charge, in order to promote the Forum.
This is a selfless act on my part, but I would be willing to do it.
If an Elite was unavailable I would be willing to do the same task in a mint condition Lotus Carlton.
Can't say fairer than that.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Did somebody say "By the end of the year"?
« on: 16 June 2008, 20:53:52 »
Yes Debs, i think it was me who said it could be 150 by the end of the year. wrong.
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General Discussion Area / Re: BBC/Government
« on: 16 June 2008, 21:48:02 »Quote
Yes and at the same time they are losing tax revenue on smoking, and drinking will suffer the same if sales fall.
If that happens, where do the Government go to find more tax revenue to replace that lost?........FUEL!!!
Yes Lizzie you are right.
Just recently it came to light that the Macmillan Goverment of the 1950's kept quiet about smoking and the links to cancer, because they did'nt want to have falling sales, and less revenue.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Rising Fuel prices Overnight
« on: 14 June 2008, 21:26:47 »
I read today that we are to expect petrol to be 150 alitre by Christmas.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Rising Fuel prices Overnight
« on: 14 June 2008, 21:10:26 »
yes, but 6p overnight.
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General Discussion Area / Rising Fuel prices Overnight
« on: 14 June 2008, 21:00:50 »
Whats happening with petrol prices.
Yesterday my local BP on a main road was selling unleaded for 117.9 per litre.
Today its 123.9 6p extra. Has the oil price gone up enormously overnight, or is someone taking the piss, because of the tanker drivers strike?
No cars being served - not suprising
This petrol station was on a main road and there is usually a queue of cars to get petrol but not now, its like a ghost town.
Yesterday my local BP on a main road was selling unleaded for 117.9 per litre.
Today its 123.9 6p extra. Has the oil price gone up enormously overnight, or is someone taking the piss, because of the tanker drivers strike?
No cars being served - not suprising
This petrol station was on a main road and there is usually a queue of cars to get petrol but not now, its like a ghost town.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Very Interesting LPG Statistics
« on: 16 June 2008, 11:41:27 »
LPG is an excellent idea for thirsty cars. However the more popular it becomes the more expensive it will get. The government will make surei it is taxed more.
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General Discussion Area / Re: alarm horn not sounding
« on: 15 June 2008, 20:57:57 »
Yes mines unplugged and I'm glad it is as well 
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General Discussion Area / 3% Inflation my A**e
« on: 15 June 2008, 19:21:29 »
The government tell us inflation was 3% last month. Presumably this is to give us a feeling of well being and to keep wage claims low.
But how is this 3% figure possible. We all know that food, council tax, heating, petrol have gone up by 20% or more in the last year.
I've looked into this and inflation is calculated by a "shopping basket" of approximately 650 supposedly everyday items each month.
It includes the aforementioned heating petrol etc. but also includes many items that we buy infrequently and which are DEFLATING.
Eg - Digital cameras, Sat Navs, MP3 players, LCD TV, Broadband, Clothes, Fridges.
These items and many others should not be included in the inflation statistics, afterall you buy bread and milk everyday, a TV once every few years. They bring inflation down to give an unrealistic figure in the real world.
As the saying goes "There's lies , damn lies, and statistics."
But how is this 3% figure possible. We all know that food, council tax, heating, petrol have gone up by 20% or more in the last year.
I've looked into this and inflation is calculated by a "shopping basket" of approximately 650 supposedly everyday items each month.
It includes the aforementioned heating petrol etc. but also includes many items that we buy infrequently and which are DEFLATING.
Eg - Digital cameras, Sat Navs, MP3 players, LCD TV, Broadband, Clothes, Fridges.
These items and many others should not be included in the inflation statistics, afterall you buy bread and milk everyday, a TV once every few years. They bring inflation down to give an unrealistic figure in the real world.
As the saying goes "There's lies , damn lies, and statistics."
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General Discussion Area / Re: Miggy badge change
« on: 14 June 2008, 17:40:57 »
Went to the scrappers toget a 3.2v6 badge to no avail. Could only get a 2.0. How does the saying go. Speak softly carry a big stick.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Miggy badge change
« on: 14 June 2008, 17:22:58 »
My 3.2 estate has a 2.0 badge on its rump. Makes for a lot of head scratching amongst the hot hatch boys.
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General Discussion Area / Road Tax a Fairer Way
« on: 13 June 2008, 17:32:33 »
If the Governments pricing for Road tax is to be based purely on CO2 output, then surely the question they should be asking is not what type of car do you own, but how much do you drive the car you own.
Presumably a V6 Omega putting out roughly 250grms CO2 driven 6000 miles a year, would give out no more CO2 than say super mini giving out a much smaller 125grms Co2 driven 12000 miles a year.
I therefore think that road tax should be banned completely and tax put directly onto the cost of petrol (yeah, yeah, I know we are already taxed 60% on every litre we buy)
Obviously you cannot please everybody, and people who do very high mileages would probably be better off under the old tax sytem, but by and large I think it is a much fairer way than what the Governement is planning for 2009.
It also means you will not pay the same road tax for a £1000 Vauxhall Omega as you would for Bugatti Veyron or Zonda, and it would also encourage you to think more about using the car for unnecessary trips
Presumably a V6 Omega putting out roughly 250grms CO2 driven 6000 miles a year, would give out no more CO2 than say super mini giving out a much smaller 125grms Co2 driven 12000 miles a year.
I therefore think that road tax should be banned completely and tax put directly onto the cost of petrol (yeah, yeah, I know we are already taxed 60% on every litre we buy)
Obviously you cannot please everybody, and people who do very high mileages would probably be better off under the old tax sytem, but by and large I think it is a much fairer way than what the Governement is planning for 2009.
It also means you will not pay the same road tax for a £1000 Vauxhall Omega as you would for Bugatti Veyron or Zonda, and it would also encourage you to think more about using the car for unnecessary trips
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General Discussion Area / Re: Sale of 3.2 V6 Estate
« on: 12 June 2008, 22:22:14 »Quote
Quoteyou need to get into bikes lizzie
What! Get on two wheels Albitz? Those bikes scare me to death ever since on went on my Dad's Lambaretta Scooter as a pillion passenger in 1965. Love the look of many bikes, but could never go on one!
Give me 4 wheels any day!
Yes you should Lizzie get on a bike. In the late 1970's I was nearly wiped out on my Honda 400/4 by a woman in a white 2000 GXL Mark 3 Cortina with a Black Vinyl Roof
Wasn't you was it
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General Discussion Area / Re: Sale of 3.2 V6 Estate
« on: 12 June 2008, 19:57:29 »Quote
QuoteQuoteQuoteNeed to sell 3.2 (ex plod estate) on this site, but told I need to be Junior member.
How many posts do I need to get rid of my OOF Virgin Tag :-?
Just 50 for selling a car; 250 for parts.
Thanks for that Lizzie Zoom ( A 3.2 ex cop car would suit you down to the ground)
Not quick enough for her.
She only ever ask's 2 questions.
Does it do 60 in sub 5's
and
will it do 200mph
I'm used to 10.something second quarter mile times, but sadly not in ex plod Omega. Which is sub 3 to 60 mph