My daughter now orders her lunch from a kiosk at school. (View Post)

Are you doing proper double-entry accounting here? Adding people to do unproductive jobs does increase output, but it lowers it per head overall. Adding also adds to our costs and overheads. It means… (View Post)

Scratch the surface and rare earths aren't actually all that rare. What is rare is the extraction and more importantly the processing of them. That is almost monopoly done by China. (View Post)

Quite rightly, because then they're opinions. Truly objective facts are very few and far between. People wanting others to accept their subjective opinion as a fact is not appropriate. (View Post)

Regarding storage heaters and the lack thereof, I'd say our [2.5 year old new build] house doesn't suffer from a lack of one, it is very well-insulated and takes very little gas to keep war… (View Post)