Some humor

[goodfellow]

..........Here in Tauranga 91 is USD $1.84/liter, 95 is USD $1.96 and Diesel is USD $$1.63. Remember though that diesel is not taxed at the pump and road going vehicles have to buy Road User Charges based on weight. Up to 3.5T GVM USD $47/1000km through to USD $300/1000km for a 48T GCM.

That price/gal is about what I expected, but I didn't know about the road use tax on diesel. Quite a surcharge to be sure. I'm afraid we will have a similar across the board road tax in our future as well. Our federal highway improvement fund that is based on vehicle fuel taxes is running low, and with the preponderance of electric vehicles coming onto the market, the road improvement taxes will eventually have to be based on distances traveled.

[Rural53]

RUC, as the law is written, are actually charged on vehicles operating on the public road powered by fuels "not taxed at the point of supply", this includes electric vehicles. At the moment EVs are exempt from RUC (a coalition deal condition between the Labour Party and the Greens after the election before last) as an encouragement to get people into them. Last year this exemption was quietly extended for another three years. Most EV owners in New Zealand don't actually realise this and are in for a bit of a shock when the exemption ends and they have to start paying RUC.
 

[Rural53]

 

[goodfellow]

LOL -- that's a truly bold piece of journalism considering it was written right after the massive Dot Com speculative debacle. That said, what was supposed to set us free from mundane work tasks in order to enjoy a more fulfilled life, has made many of us veritable slaves to technology.

[Rural53]

        

[Rural53]

   Finally!

[torqueman2002]

Whew!

Thank you Rural!

I was just about to clear out my garage. I've been saving gold there for 40 years!

[fatfillup]

I always save my scrap wood and it gets used often, well as often as I do something with wood

[coolmercury]

With the price of wood rising faster than gold would be a good idea to save all you can.

[Rural53]

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[Rural53]

Doggone it.

[wantedabiggergarage]

That second picture made me think of my late furbrother.  My parents adopted a dog and EARLY on, someone hit the doorbell and my father set his hot dog down on the table and went to go check it.  Monty, the dog, was a shelter adoption and he jumped up on the chair, grabbed the end of the hot dog, and pulled it from the bun and went behind the couch.  Dad came back and sat down, and the second bite, realized he was just eating bread, relish and the other condiments, looked into it and saw the dogs tail sticking out from the couch.
Until the dog realized he wasn't going to go hungry, we had to watch him.

[Rural53]

[Rural53]

An Alberta farmer in his pickup, drove to a neighbor’s and knocked at the door. A boy, about 9, opened the door.

“Is your Dad home?”

“No sir, he isn’t; he went to town.”

“Well, is your Mother here?”

“No sir, she went to town with Dad.”

“How about your brother, Howard? Is he here?”

“No sir, He went with Mom and Dad.”

The rancher stood there for a few minutes, shifting from one foot to the other, and mumbling to himself.

“Is there anything I can do for you? I know where all the tools are, if you want to borrow one, or I can give dad a message.”

“Well,” said the rancher uncomfortably, “I really wanted to talk to your Dad. It’s about your brother Howard getting my daughter, Suzie, pregnant.

The boy thought for a moment. “You would have to talk to Dad about that. I know he charges $500 for the bull and $50 for the hog, but I don’t know how much he charges for Howard.”

[Lookin4_67GalaxieConv]