Fatality Free Friday should be every day
I must entirely agree with the editor's assessment of the likely effectiveness of "Fatality Free Friday". It's an admission of defeat in the government's attempts to make every day fatality free.
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How would we do anything different when we believe that we're driving safely all the time?
Statistics help administrators and perhaps cause us to treat a problem seriously, but who drives any differently from day to day because of them?
Our biggest issue is that drivers are very often not aware of high risk elements in their daily driving.
They know when they're breaking rules, but could be making high risk decisions while remaining legal.
"Fatality Free Friday" begs us to "be good", when so many of us are not fully aware of how to be "safe".
Bruce Harper
Wagga
Either way, it's going to cost us
So, the Prime Minister Scott Morrison is going to look after the "quite Australians". I take this to mean that he is mainly referring to the aged and low income earners.
He well knows that one of the most important issues in the lives of the quite Australians is currently the price of electricity and gas. And this is where it gets complicated. If the PM honours the Paris Agreement then, according to the experts, the planet is going to get cooler. This of course will mean that we need the use of more heaters.
Alternatively, if he doesn't walk away from the agreement then the planet's climate could possibly become warmer. This will mean more fans plus air conditioning.
Either way the cost of electricity/gas is still going to go through the roof and will put the running of these devices completely out of the reach of the vast majority of all Australians.
This places everyone between a rock and a hard place. We are damned if the PM doesn't walk away from the Paris Agreement and we are damned if he does.
Either way the quite Australians are in for a torrid time.
If the abnormally cold snap that is currently in this region persists, and if all the males around here can't afford to turn their heaters on, they could all possibly suffer the same freezing fate that befell the legendary and hapless 'Brass Monkey'.
Perish the thought.
Geoff Field
Gundagai
Lagging behind
The price of crude oil is dropping a lot. Why? Because most of the world is tuning to electric or hybrid cars.
We are so far behind the rest of the world as far as this goes is not acceptable.
We do not have the infrastructure at the moment for long distance travel by electric cars but we do for hybrids. They are available but we are being told by this bought Liberal party that they are no good. More lies and distortions by the Liberals.
In the past Labor has wanted all new cars sold to be electric or hybrid by 2030. A good start.
