What would the world be like if

[XmisterIS]

Or maybe it will discourage the current practice of sending food on a 600 mile round trip only to be sold in a shop two miles from the farm it was originally produced.

Quite. I buy my fresh produce from my local farm's shop.

 

[Davidc]

Or maybe it will discourage the current practice of sending food on a 600 mile round trip only to be sold in a shop two miles from the farm it was originally produced.

Not just food.

An article I read last year - I'll credit it if I remember where - suggested that the average distance multiplier from point of import, manufacture or production, was between 10 and 20.

With much of that being by road, in the most structurally damaging vehicles, not only would enforced rationalisation reduce fuel use, it would also save a fortune in road maintenance!

If the multiplier is even as low as 5 it would be quite possile for a reduction in unnecessary mileage, brought on by increasing fuel costs, to make the price of goods at the point of sale actually drop.

 

[Muddyfox]

Or maybe it will discourage the current practice of sending food on a 600 mile round trip only to be sold in a shop two miles from the farm it was originally produced.

I very much doubt it

When i was truck driving we used to Haul potatoes to France, not just the odd load but thousands and thousands of tonnes of the things only to see the French trucks hauling thousands of tonnes of their potatoes over to England ... Go Figure

Simon

 

[Hilldodger]

Where would you get your bikes and spares from?

Almost nothing is made in this country - I'm having great difficulty getting some handlebars made - even in Birmingham and Coventry.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Where would you get your bikes and spares from?

Almost nothing is made in this country - I'm having great difficulty getting some handlebars made - even in Birmingham and Coventry.

Yeah but no but - there would be a growth in local manufacture and repair would there not?

 

[Muddyfox]

Yeah but no but - there would be a growth in local manufacture and repair would there not?

I doubt that too !

we used to be a manufacturing nation (Brittish Leyland aside) but other countrys seem to be able to manufacture goods and fly them into this country then stick them onto gas guzzling trucks and distribute the stuff all over GB alot cheaper than we can make it and wheelbarrow it 500 yrds from the factory to the shop

Simon

 

[Davidc]

Well - tax or no tax we may find out unless a lot more new reserves of cheap liquid crude oil are found in 2010 than were found in 2009 and 2008!