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chrisss Forums Junkie Location: melb Registered: May 2002	Re: petrol $ going up up Mon, 27 June 2005 07:51 Quote: who cares, let our kids work it out sorry too late......thats what our parents said.. look at the first and second oil crises of the 70's and the response of the auto makers......japanese car makers had a field day because they were offering the right product at the right time..ie small efficient cars........holden responded with the VB commodore only to return to the bloated blobs of the late 80's (VN onwards)...... our manufacturing basis in this country is going to be hit very hard by the oil price increase (not only car makers but many other supplier industries).......the current designs are completely out of step with what we need.... it could be said that they (local automakers) are down right negligent as the national economy and emplyment are heavily dependant on them..... like the product or not, a successful holden and ford in this country is good far everyone (australias that is)..... we need them, but they need to be doing the right thing also (ie not making 6.0lt V8 dinosaurs) [Updated on: Mon, 27 June 2005 07:54] [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	petrol $ going up up	chrisss	Sun, 26 June 2005 19:03
	Re: petrol $ going up up	shcao	Mon, 27 June 2005 00:28
	Re: petrol $ going up up	R-jay	Mon, 27 June 2005 00:55
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Norbie	Mon, 27 June 2005 00:59
	Re: petrol $ going up up	thechuckster	Mon, 27 June 2005 03:17
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Les	Mon, 27 June 2005 03:28
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Corona RT142	Mon, 27 June 2005 03:34
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Ribfeast	Mon, 27 June 2005 05:26
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Norbie	Mon, 27 June 2005 06:51
	Re: petrol $ going up up	oldcorollas	Mon, 27 June 2005 06:58
	Re: petrol $ going up up	ae86drift	Mon, 27 June 2005 07:11
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Dust	Mon, 27 June 2005 16:02
	Re: petrol $ going up up	chrisss	Mon, 27 June 2005 06:25
	Re: petrol $ going up up	chrisss	Mon, 27 June 2005 07:15
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Corona RT142	Mon, 27 June 2005 07:18
	Re: petrol $ going up up	chrisss	Mon, 27 June 2005 07:26
	Re: petrol $ going up up	86tt	Mon, 27 June 2005 19:12
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Corona RT142	Mon, 27 June 2005 07:30
	Re: petrol $ going up up	boudan	Mon, 27 June 2005 07:33
	Re: petrol $ going up up	chrisss	Mon, 27 June 2005 07:51
	Re: petrol $ going up up	R-jay	Mon, 27 June 2005 08:51
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Corona RT142	Mon, 27 June 2005 09:51
	Re: petrol $ going up up	dingaling	Mon, 27 June 2005 12:15
	Re: petrol $ going up up	R-jay	Mon, 27 June 2005 13:08
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Ribfeast	Mon, 27 June 2005 11:53
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Matt-itude	Mon, 27 June 2005 12:07
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Ribfeast	Mon, 27 June 2005 20:52
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Norbie	Mon, 27 June 2005 23:29
	Re: petrol $ going up up	rob_RA40	Mon, 27 June 2005 22:25
	Re: petrol $ going up up	brendanteck	Mon, 27 June 2005 23:24
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Chris Davey	Tue, 28 June 2005 00:01
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Norbie	Tue, 28 June 2005 00:51
	Re: petrol $ going up up	unforgiven	Tue, 28 June 2005 02:55
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Intensevil	Tue, 28 June 2005 03:56
	Re: petrol $ going up up	FWDCelica	Tue, 28 June 2005 04:42
	Re: petrol $ going up up	R-jay	Tue, 28 June 2005 06:16
	Re: petrol $ going up up	FKN16V	Tue, 28 June 2005 09:14
	Re: petrol $ going up up	FKN16V	Tue, 28 June 2005 09:15
	Re: petrol $ going up up	oldcorollas	Tue, 28 June 2005 10:47
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Corona RT142	Tue, 28 June 2005 06:23
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Intensevil	Tue, 28 June 2005 06:39
	Re: petrol $ going up up	oldcorollas	Tue, 28 June 2005 07:18
	Re: petrol $ going up up	oldcorollas	Tue, 28 June 2005 07:32
	Re: petrol $ going up up	Ribfeast	Tue, 28 June 2005 07:42
	Re: petrol $ going up up	brett_celicacoupe	Tue, 28 June 2005 10:23

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