arjay your habit of putting the verbal boot into every one is charming.
You target every time Pericles a poster few would not see as well anchored.
I fall victim to your hate of the ALP again, you must never have seen my comments about NSW.
Your posts and this thread best describe you.
Can it be you truly did not know the tax you blame for power has never been paid.
Mate you self confidence is miss placed.
Your sources of information little more than comic books for the though fully idle.
Those you defame, for haveing views other than yours, are assured of victory handed to them by your self in the intended insults.
I await a post or thread from you that is based on reality.

Belly,Pericles invites a good tongue lashing with his contant innuendos,adhominem and lies.Simple solution Belly.If can't stand the heat,don't work in my kitchen.

arjay your post gives me reason to be sorry, several, and all for you.
It mate is not your kitchen, nore is it mine.
Why do you post, I like to have my say, see others views, taste the very air on issues.
In post I can not asure myself I will not get it wrong,sometimes very.
Nore can I say I will not be targeted for my views, I understand, the person who is always right has not yet been born.
Too that my support for unionism is shared by only one in 5.
That the party of choice for me is currently holding less than half this country's support.
arjay, have you ever thought about why you find a poster as balanced as Pericles a lie user but rabbit on constantly about 9/11 in terms that are so weird and untrue it questions your understanding.
Some in this world, who knowingly lie should consider it is no crime not to believe them.
Your kitchen? good for a laugh but sad too.

Never mind Arjay, When a good conspiracy comes along you can hold the floor. Co2 is invisible, Carbon is black particles, a price on carbon was an inevitable outcome. We should see a cleaning of the air we breath, who knows, things like asthma may disappear. Wouldn't that be good.

Another classic example, Arjay, of your tendency to ready, fire, aim.

>>Pericles does not believe yet again.Anything outside of his experience is not credible.I'll give you a guided tour Pericles to prove the Scotty does indeed work alone.<<

I believe you, I believe you. And for the record, I never said otherwise. Go check. You managed to grasp the wrong end of the stick, yet again.

It is interesting though that you made no comment on the analysis of Scotty's running costs. With his balance sheet stuffed full of expensive fixed assets, and his P&L groaning under the combined weight of debt repayments and depreciation, it is little wonder that he is finding the going tough.

More to the point, though, it puts the relatively trivial increase in electricity costs into perspective. At a time when his power bill increased (according to your figures) by $1,400 a month, he burdened the business with ten times that amount in additional costs.

Nobody I know can sustain a business with that financial profile. Especially when they are only charging their own time at $35 an hour. And as well as the production time, he has to get out there and sell against his Chinese and Taiwanese competitors. Poor guy - his problems are far greater than the prospect of an even bigger electricity bill.

Scotty, if you're reading this, do yourself a favour, and get out now. If you like, you can blame the carbon tax, and pretend that it was the straw that broke the camel's back. We'll all nod our heads, and agree with you, because we're all very polite, and in situations like this we will bite our tongue, and not state the obvious.

Pericles you are not too smart.He has 4 machines and when they are set in motion,each of them earns $35 per hr.They operate without a constant attendant.Howvever there is also down time in prepartion and programming time.When you consider the cost of each @ $300,000 the margins are fine.

You are not in the industry so how would you know?