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Home Grown?
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Unknown | Report | 21 Oct 2004 21:26 |
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Hi Bob, So why does it cost First Bus £1.60 to take me 3 miles into town? Seems to me the only people really winning are the Transport Companies, And the only real loser is good old Mother Earth and her natural resources are wasted in simply moving stuff repeatedly until it rots and then burying it. If the amount of energy spent were diverted to some of our deprived areas we would all benefit. Jim |
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Bob | Report | 21 Oct 2004 20:30 |
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Paul is partly right. The pay in China is very low by our standards but then so is the cost of living. The real point is that transport is *very* cheap. A 40 foot container with up to 20 tonnes in it cost as little as £500 to send from Shanghai to Tilbury which is less than it costs to send a truck to Ireland and you can get an awful lot of stuff in these boxes. It is so cheap in fact that we are now shipping waste for re-cycling out to China because they will pay more for it than the UK re-cyclers. Bob |
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Unknown | Report | 21 Oct 2004 14:39 |
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Carole, I'll tell him you said that. maybe next time you're in Las Vegas you won't go Man Hunting in Chinatown? Lol Jim |
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Unknown | Report | 21 Oct 2004 14:16 |
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They do it by paying their workers peanuts. Or possibly rice (sorry, shouldn't make light of it but its true). As for the tobacco - bin that damn stuff it's bad for you... |
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Unknown | Report | 21 Oct 2004 14:11 |
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I was just looking at a Golden Virginia Tin. It says Made by Imperial Tobacco, Bristol, England. That I understand. It also says A Blend of Virginia (which I always believed was in America) and other Tobaccos. That I understand. Then it says Packed in Indonesia under licence. That is where I lose the plot. Does anyone else wonder what all this TransGlobal thing is all about? I would have thought that the nearer to the Consumer the product was produced, the less effect on the environment. And while I am in a ranting mood, how is it that I can buy a trinket for 10p (Made in China). The transport costs must be phenomenal. How do they do it. |
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