Electrifying federal governmentâs fleet of cars would cost $200 million
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It would cost less than $200 million to convert the Commonwealthâs fleet of vehicles to lower emissions electric models within the next decade, according to an analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Office.
The analysis, commissioned by the Greens, covers the Commonwealthâs 10,253 internal combustion engine passenger and light commercial vehicles.
It would cost $200 million to convert the Commonwealth fleet to electric vehicles, the Parliamentary Budget Office has found.
It assumes vehicles are replaced gradually at retirement age, with completion by 2030. The $200 million represents the cost over and above the price of replacing with petrol and diesel vehicles and includes investment in charging infrastructure, which would be expanded with the fleet.
viz., a supra-national entity that has laws, courts and the means to enforce the peace.
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In my view that while the ICC was undeniably a good idea, it never attained the commitment across the board to permit it to succeed.
I ll go back to my original parallel; the reason why nation states are mostly lawful and peaceful places is that ordinary citizens forgo the right to coercion and revenge and place it solely in the hands of the nation state.
In the case of the ICC that never really happened; while most nations signed up to the ICC, there was never the necessary commitment to cede the nation state s own authority and interests. And while I agree the USA is the most outstanding culprit in this respect, it s also understandable given that as by far the most powerful sovereign nation it had the most at stake.
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Interestingly that article starts with a description of appallingly bad safety standards at a major petrochem site in the 1960 s. Yet remarkably everything has changed in the 50 years since; the events he describes are pretty much unthinkable in a developed country today.
In particular:
One day, Sherman was standing in a room, leaning over a large pipe to check a filter, when an operator in a distant control room mistakenly turned a knob, sending hot, almond-smelling, liquid chlorinated hydrocarbons coursing through the pipe, drenching him
I worked for decades in that control room, always aware that I could kill or main with a bad or unlucky decision. Yet the technology advanced dramatically, giving us tools and platforms that properly implemented, making incidents like the above orders of magnitude less likely. Organisations soon realised that investing in safety tech actually saved them cash, and in the past decade virtually every major new in
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