Under the affluence of incahol

flappist · 09-12-2010, 11:56 AM

With all the discussion going on in the mainstearm media about BAC levels as to whether they should be lowered, stay the same or raised I thought I would start a thread to discuss all the options.

Please though, if you choose to contribute can you take the following into consideration:

1) Just because YOU think something is right does not make it so or even the general consensus.
2) What affects you directly may not be the same as for others. We all live in different places and social/economic environments.
3) If you have been personally affected by a drink driving tragedy remember that the culprit was ALREADY breaking the law so a reduced limit would have made no difference to that event. Also you are not the only one on here who has been in that situation.

I would hope that most would look at the big picture. Remember BAC is NOT that you have been drinking and very low BAC reading has been demonstrated from various foods, confectionary, medicines and exposure to vapours in various construction and industrial situations so a 0 BAC means that many people will be prevented from driving purely due to their job, transient minor medical condition or even their religeous practices.

Also the middle of Sydney at peak hour requires a different driving skill base than wandering down a lonely rural road.

The idea is to DISCUSS it, please if you disagree, attack the point not the presenter.

And of course, what would this be without a poll

View Poll Results: What should the BAC for Australia be
0.08 as it was for may years and is still so overseas	45	20.27%
0.08 in the bush, 0.05 in the city and on highways	4	1.80%
0.05 seems to be working well, leave it there	105	47.30%
0.05 in the bush, 0.02 in the city and on highways	1	0.45%
0.02 across the board	21	9.46%
0.00000 as well as ZERO tolerance	30	13.51%
Sliding scale, e.g. 0.08 first offence, 0.05 after that etc.	13	5.86%
Something else, please detail	3	1.35%
Voters: 222. You may not vote on this poll