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| Thread ID: 74071 | 2006-11-10 08:06:00 | Gas Bottles for Cooking and Hot water | wmoore (6009) | PC World Chat |
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| 497964 | 2006-11-12 20:42:00 | Most NZers enjoy free water (councils charge a flat rate of around $150/year). Aucklanders have metered water iirc. | somebody (208) | ||
| 497965 | 2006-11-12 21:37:00 | That's not what I said...perhaps it lost a little in the translation...but I was saying: Her water bill for irrigating 5+ acres was about the same...and she had no gas on the property for heat or anything else. If we had married, I would have been post haste replacing those wasteful devices with gas operated ones..at least where it was applicable. __________ and meant that the water bill was about the same as her electric rates.:p :blush: :lol: ;) Sorry Joe, I was being a bit tongue in cheek. Fierce price for her water though, especially since it is only delivered by surface. My irrigation is airmailed in on a pretty frequent though irregular schedule. I suspect the deliverer does it in their spare time, since it is mostly delivered in weekends and holidays. I find that about 1.2 metresper year (or 48" in real numbers) keeps the lawns nicely green. Further South, they get by on around 30ft a year, still airmailed in at zero cost. Cheers. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 497966 | 2006-11-13 05:54:00 | I suspect Upsiddown Land has all it's utilities vastly overpriced if that is the case..cost-wise that is. Youse guys is being hosed down, methinks. If the general populance of this paradise in the Pacific were as perceptive as you are Joe, there'd be armed revolt for sure. We lack effective competition and that's all there is to it. But thankfully it is paradise, for the populance are by and large ignorant of their hosing and we manage pretty well with things as they are. :confused: From what I can see from down here some of you guys in the rightsideup lands have trouble at times knowing the end of a hose when you see one too. But your system does have some self-correcting mechanisms that we don't have here. :help: Although, until last week I was beginning to wonder about that too. |
brig (1359) | ||
| 497967 | 2006-11-13 15:12:00 | If the general populance of this paradise in the Pacific were as perceptive as you are Joe, there'd be armed revolt for sure. We lack effective competition and that's all there is to it. But thankfully it is paradise, for the populance are by and large ignorant of their hosing and we manage pretty well with things as they are. :confused: From what I can see from down here some of you guys in the rightsideup lands have trouble at times knowing the end of a hose when you see one too. But your system does have some self-correcting mechanisms that we don't have here. :help: Although, until last week I was beginning to wonder about that too. If you catch the reference: "Sometimes the pendulum needs a good kick"....but I am not advocating politics and the illegitimacy of it to correct anything. I fear however, that the pendulum never got into motion there...in USD Land. Don't get me wrong..I envy your piece of the world...it's got that "In your face" attitude that I find refreshing and hearkens to the days somewhere after the Daniel Boone/Davey Crockett days and those of the Industrial Revolution...not physically, but mentality-wise. What I mean by that isn't obvious on the surface: independence on a personal and individual level is admired and something to cherish...which I do...and therefor by extension, I admire youse guys and how you are able to live with those freedoms. I am afraid that the slippery slope incline is tilted toward destroying that very lifestyle by a slow and merciless death. Unfortunately, the US has much more influence on you than you want to admit (as a class of people, not you personally), and I also fear that your rugged individualism days are marked and enumerated. I am sorry for that..the US modeling thing, not your independence. All my sarcastic remarks, which youse guys have taken well and with some really decent comebacks, makes me more than respect your island paradise. I love to twist the occasional tail, and I delight in fast repartee, which I hope everyone has recognised as loving and admiring. Yours is perhaps the last bastion of that spirit and I wish it would go on forever..but I also see the fact that all people will eventually be just shades of grey with any iconoclastic merits bred out by assumption and dilution from the rest of the invading world. A chocky fish to all youse guys. :thumbs: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 497968 | 2006-11-14 11:30:00 | "We are all put here to help others, what the others are here for I have no idea." Steven Wright, (a national treasure). |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 497969 | 2006-11-14 14:50:00 | "We are all put here to help others, what the others are here for I have no idea." Steven Wright, (a national treasure). I can see this post is going to get hijacked..so I might as well start it off royally: Steven Wright (www.youtube.com) |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 497970 | 2007-12-26 20:15:00 | wmoore: Did you end up getting instant hot water + Twinpacks installed? If so, how much did it cost? What do you think of it? Would you recommend it to others? | somebody (208) | ||
| 497971 | 2007-12-26 21:31:00 | No didn't get it installed. Most people said it wasn't worth it. | wmoore (6009) | ||
| 497972 | 2007-12-26 21:53:00 | No didn't get it installed. Most people said it wasn't worth it. Ok - cheers. We have a very old (and inefficent) electric hot water cylinder, so any change is likely to be for the better. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 497973 | 2007-12-26 22:51:00 | Ok - cheers. We have a very old (and inefficent) electric hot water cylinder, so any change is likely to be for the better. Where are you? Isn't there a gas line in your street/town? Here in Wanganui electric is 21c/unit & gas equivalent is 14c/unit, )approx). PJ. |
Poppa John (284) | ||
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