I also think that Countries like Australia where i live now need actually stop being bullied by the Rich who have a love making money at the cost of the environment.
When you buy a new car you get a battery that last like 6yrs, but when that puppy dies, let me tell you they import these cheap car batteries from china with 1yr to all the way up to 3yrs warranties that aren't sealed they leak acid on the roads via a tube. Really this day and age when you pay $120 for a 1yr battery then it gets recycled what a stupid government that allows this. I've even bought a bosch battery with a 2 yr warranty for $200 Au from "Super Cheap Auto" and only lasted 18months.
The thing that kills batteries is the cold not the heat. In Canada where i'm from we have battery heaters in cars and you plug them in, or in -50c they crack. and go dead, Not in Australia and Canada has 10yr warranty on sealed batteries. and the min is 3yrs not 1yr.
My next thing is insulation Australia homes use Insulation as an option, how stupid, and when they do insulate they use r3. lol WTH is r3. So basically a new house like mine uses heat most of the winter like 24hrs a day and air-conditioning all spring,summer,fall. really if you had r20 or higher the house would be insulated enough to actually hold the heat or air-conditioning. But once again the government hasn't said lets fix the problem, maybe they think Aussies are stupid and don't have a clue what rest of the developed world has.
Australia loves windows And all the windows or single pane glass, not dual plane, and if you mention argon gas they look at you like a confused dog??
really windows like this have been made for over 20yrs now,
they are made to keep the sun's heat out in the summer or cold in the winter outside. I could go on for days how things need improving here. Its just a very large waste of electricity, I bet if i could have the same products that i could get in Canada here in Australia my electricity bill would be 1/4 of what it is now.
One last not the price of insulation in Australia for R3 is 70% more expensive then R20 in Canada. And the last time i bought a sheet of drywall in Canada in 1999 I paid $4.65 a sheet, In 2004 I bought the same sheet made by the same company but in Australia and paid $21 at Bunnings.
When you build a house where i live the lot is $250 000 $120 000 is local taxes (hidden in price) then the total price of a 1 story house with 4 bedrooms is around $470 000. With no insulation, single pane windows, brick vent spacing without the zinc vents, so basically at night you can see tons of cockroaches coming out of you brickwork, makes you hollow walls a perfect place for them to live
Then they put this stupid rubber gasket under the window which shrinks on purpose because of the sunlight and unprotected rubber just doesn't work, then the ants come straight into your house and then all your ever doings is spraying chemicals all over, trying to kill these pest.
And for a country which has a billion flies a square meter you think they might import tons of purple martin;s and introduce them. They eat up-to 2000 flies each a day and aren't poisonous like the cane toad or invasive like the Indian Myna Birds. They are just an oversize sparrow which likes to eat flies.
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