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Thinking on the relative material well being of members of so called advanced nations I've check out some stats, but I need your help. Here's a list of things as they stand in Australia, I was wondering how they were in your part of the world.
Average Australian Household income: USD $22,200 (AUS $35 990) Average US household income: USD $33,900
A$1 = USA 60c (approx) = UK 39p approx.
Big Mac: $3 Aus (US $1.80) Loaf of Bread: $2.20 (US 1.32) 1 litre milk: $1.40 (US 84 c) Petrol: 93.7 cpl (US 57 cpl) cpl = cents per litre Family Car: $35 000 (US $21000) House 3bdrm double garage, study, lounge dining / kitchen rumpus, middle class area, suburbs: $250 000 (US $150 000)
So, how much do they above things cost where you live? (in you terms, and relative USD if you can convert).
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Can you convert that to Euro's? Just kiddin'
Lets see: Big Mac: about twice that price. Loaf of bread: half that price. Petrol: twice that price.
The rest is about the same.
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I'm still trying to find someone that sells a "Family Car". Who makes THE family car?
Jay: Does Germany, France and all of Scandinavia count? >( And that's not all.
Well, let's see here.
Big Mac: 29kr (3,1USD, 3,45EUR)
1 litre milk: 8kr (0,96USD, 1,07EUR)
98oct-leadfree: 9,20kr/litre (98cpl)
And Sweden is one of the few countries that can use commas instead of dots in decimals, so there.
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57 cents per liter? That's $2.16 per gallon! Does it really cost that much over here in any place other than, say, Florida or California? Where I live, I think it's around $1.43/gallon (38 cents/liter) right now.
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Despite the rather loud complaints heard from some (including me!), the U.S. pays the lowest prices for gasoline of any industrialized nation, I believe.
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The problem in Australia is... that we have enough oil in the ground here to last Australia for something like the next 4000 years! I think its just easier to buy it from elsewhere... anyway its just a big conspiracy... The oil companies buy up any new energy producing technology and the ideas and the scientists are never heard from again... "Hydrogen Fuel" and "Cold Fusion"
Did you know that instead of Bitumen that solar cells could be used... the amount of energy produced would be phenomenal!
Andrew
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The problem with solar energy is that it is expensive to set up. Same with Hydrogen fuel. Very efficient, yes, but at the moment it costs a great deal to use.
And as far as I know, Cold Fusion hasn't even existed yet.
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The problem with solar power is that, as of now, it is rather horribly inefficient.
Cold fusion, as championed by those two guys in the '80's, has never been replicated in the laboratory. As the physics behind such a phenomenon are as of yet nonexistant, it seems safe, at this juncture, to say that cold fusion is exceedingly improbable.
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