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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: lawn mower fuel, should it be taxed? |
| keni |
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:53
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| .....I use about a gallon a week in the summer to answer your question |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: lawn mower fuel, should it be taxed? |
| keni |
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:48
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| Sorry Rigpig, I do think it's worth the effort to stop these grabbers getting say £3 per week off of each person who uses a lawnmower. Keni |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: lawn mower fuel, should it be taxed? |
| keni |
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:39
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| As petty as this sounds I'm more interested in how much this so called government are getting from a duty which is "illegal". Surely we should be able to buy fuel with no duty (£1 a gallon?) when it is for use other than on the highway. Perhaps we should run our diesel engines on a gallon ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Motorway driving |
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 16:22
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| sorry smeggy, you really haven't shown justification for a 1.1 second gap (or 115 feet at 70mph.) There is no need to drive at this distance from the vehicle in front, it does nothing for you at all, and as said, it gives no margins at all. It does smack of "territoryism" though since at t... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Motorway driving |
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 14:36
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| I'm sure this would apply in one set of circumstances but the number of variables is almost infinite, tyre condition, age/state of other drivers, etc etc, Also no "fat" at all, i.e. no safety/error margins. Ken |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Motorway driving |
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 14:02
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| true! But then we should be alert and looking for an overtake position as soon as it safely presents itself, closing the gap as necessary just before passing and having done a final check of mirrrors and scanned well ahead. Sometimes it is better or even necessary to go to the offside to get a good ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Motorway driving |
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 13:47
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| Hello Mole, I'm a mechanical engineer and would like to see your calculation but I'd be surprised if it were one which could take into account for only one example, your being behind a car (at best or a large van even worse) on an uphill stretch of motorway where forward visibility isn't as good as ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Motorway driving |
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 13:21
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| Sorry to johnnytheboy if I came across wrongly, I interpreted your quote "if everyone left wide gaps the individual driver could exploit them to his or her advantage, and we end up where we started. as just what it implied i.e. that you were against leaving what you call wide gaps and what I ca... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Motorway driving |
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 13:06
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| sorry Smeggy one second or 35 yards at 70 mph simply isn't a safe distance to follow. To be safe all drivers should look ahead as far as possible during the routine scanning all around and it isn't correct to say that "The two-second rule only applies to drivers who don’t look beyond the brake ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Motorway driving |
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:05
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| You're clearly convinced that you're right and that leaving the correct gap wouldn't work. Why don't you try it for once, you obviously don't at the moment. To disagree that a correct gap isn't a good thing to have is plain daft. It is and it is workable . I apply it every day and it really has kept... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Motorway driving |
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 07:55
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| I'm absolutely certain (from personal exp) that if drivers attitudes would change from strongly territorial to "accommodating", the collision count on motorways (and all roads actually) would drop drastically. At 90 mph a car and it's occupants are travelling at 135 feet per second (multip... |
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