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Thread | Bright balls at Birmingham....
at 19:05 2 Nov 2023
Leicester City’s Championship clash against Leeds United will be the first game of the season to use a new ‘high visibility’ winter ball, the EFL have confirmed.
The new ball will be used throughout the winter, with the policy reintroduced to the EFL for the first time since the 2018/19 season. Over the last few seasons, bright match balls have only been used during low visibility or in extreme weather conditions.
But in a change this season, all EFL games will use the Puma Orbita 1 Hi Vis Sky Bet match balls up until mid-February. City’s match against Leeds will be the first to use the new ball with all other EFL games following suit over the weekend. |
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Reply | Oil profits
at 15:40 1 Aug 2023
stop digging lol ...future running costs (money from previous profits) are required to run a business and keep it solvent, that allows for future investment on profits made, any borrowings have to also be serviced from income that is hopefully sufficient to meet costs and provide further profits, that are then available to invest on an ongoing basis.
All profits returned to share holders would see a balance of nil at start of year, relying on next income to service all expenses etc, that would also restrict investment.
So year end profit figure is what is left after all expenses, divis etc and that figure then rolls into the following year and so on, rolling profits are required to sustain, invest etc and not all returned to share holders, clearly...I'm not sure you understand my explanation so for the sake of ciivility I'll leave it there, you clearly have a different take on how business run their finances, divi and investment allocations. ..thanks for the debate :-) [Post edited 1 Aug 2023 15:57]
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Reply | Oil profits
at 14:06 1 Aug 2023
With respect, profits are for the prior year to that date, they are then divided into future investments, return a percentage to shareholders future running costs etc..therefore on going profits provide a base for future investment etc.....I presume you run a business too ..hard to imagine any company starting a new tax year with no funds, after returning all profits ! [Post edited 1 Aug 2023 14:13]
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Reply | Oil profits
at 12:49 1 Aug 2023
Interesting debate and divides opinion, particularly when many have only a basic understanding of how they think energy markets work and what they think or would like the alternative energy sources to be.
A popular myth is that 'green' energy is cheaper, rarely if ever dispelled or questioned by the media and is therefore a suitable and immediate replacement for home heating, car driving, etc. let alone all the everyday items we take for granted made from petro chems (phones, computers, tv.s, medical supplies etc).
Take a look at the last four weeks and the failure of the Norfolk wind farm to supply 1.5m homes as the cost made it unviable, two battery factories bankrupt as well, Siemens halting their wind turbine suppy as the tech has issues as was rushed out and put them at a global loss of £1 billion so far, I could go on. The green tech needs more time and much larger investment to get it right before any chance of 24/7 supplies to parts of our nation, some areas such as heavy vehicals are many years from a solution as is the joined up supply to our national grid.
The big question for many is what are you prepared to scarifice, how much will you pay or can afford to pay as the just stopping oil will cause severe hardship and in many areas create huge cost and vulnerability.
There is no simple answer and many politicians to date have not been honest with the public, what they say in private re green energy is totally different to public rhetoric as they know they cannot deliver net zero in current time scales....The simple option promoted by some is far from it and the complexity and unintended consequences of simply stopping oil would be felt by a large change in peoples everyday lifestyles quite quickly....the alarmists have many frightened, science always has done re climate since time began, through medieval times and now in 2023.Any climate related event is 'climate change' where many are simply not and the weather used to be measured in thousands and even millions if years. Recently it is the last 100 yrs approx since records began !
There is no reason not to transition to cleaner effective energy/fuels/materials, however, for those in the industries and for the general public realistic 'public' timescales from politicians are required unless we wish to see costs soar, blackouts occur ( wind needs gas to supply 24/7) . It's a complex mix, the oil companies don't suplly direct to the public, they have huge investments, running costs, made huge losses through covid with no support and there is a host of intermediaries between drilling oil and it running our cars, heating homes, making products etc.
What may surprise some is the fact that the larger investments in many renewable sources are from the oil and gas companies (they have the global reach and funds few other do) as they develop the tech, Shell , BP and many other lesser known oilies will be our wind , solar, hydrogen, efuel suppliers in the future and require their profits to develop and get it right, cut off their profits and we actually slow the green advance ironically.....apologies for the long post, it's a long subject. [Post edited 1 Aug 2023 13:34]
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Reply | ‘The Tyre Extuingishers’
at 23:53 7 Sep 2022
Interesting debate, however, as pointed out by a previous poster many recent (2015 -2022) SUV's are ULEZ compliant, much lower emissions than smaller model cars etc. So is the target about emissions or a 'class war' ?...If it's genuinely about emissions then beware as their next target is likely to be non compliant ULEZ 6 vehicles apparently (older than 2015).
Next it may be house size (who needs a 3/4 bedroom house with less people), Gas boiler users are polluters in these guys view, ER will want you to have a heat pump, Two/three car families etc. (get a bus) These groups ultimately often end up causing their early 'supporters' the same inconvenience in their own lifestyles. |
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