Chorley is dry

well i am a cockney fellas

 

so, what youdoing with yourself these days then..? - you did mention semi retirement..?

 

There is about 20 cars trying to get into my local petrol station and there are lot of petrol stations near me.

So much for not panic buying, I think the petrol stations should increase their prices to discourage it.

 

Having paid £50 for a bit over 40 litres last night,I think it's already happening.

 

£50 for 40 litres!!!!!! thats, erm hold on........

 

.....thats over £1 a litre, I think

 

Yep...it is...but needs must....thankfully it's diesel,and does over 45mpg easily.

There is virtually no station locally with petrol.

 

yep, it certainly is....1.25..?

 

And thankfully I'd got rid of the last car which got through Super Unleaded at 10-15 mpg.

 

where you born within hearing distance of the Bow bells?

 

Not me T-Bone,but lived in London for a good while.

 

i spend my time looking after our 16 MONTH old son while the missus works hard as a nurse in uppsala.
and no i'm not a true cockney i was brought up in romford(the land of a thousand shellsuits)
and i was(am) a parquet floor layer for the last 25 years, and working here in sweden whenever the wife is off.

 

Its 93p at my local petrol station, its possibly the cheapest one in the whole of the North West.

My dads car gets about 35mpg but its all city driving. Unlike a lot of people though if my dad can't get fuel he can't earn any money.

 

So if the taxes on fuel were set so we paid the same as the US, how much fuel do you think worldwide reserves'd have now? Fuel WILL RUN OUT ONE DAY SOON.

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but it WILL happen.

People have been far too dependent on private transport for too long. Trying to claim you can't get to work without a car is in the most part a wimp out clause; if you live in the sticks and can't get to work without a car, move; if you live in a city centre, you have no excuse.

Sorry, but I ran out of sympathy years ago. This time in 2000 I was laughing my arse off at drivers. This year it'll be all I can do to stop my head rolling off from the cackling.

Of course, if you're driving to work with a full pay load of passengers in a 1.4 litre car, you get my respect. Anyone driving their kids to school in a 4x4 or using a top-flight gas guzzling "executive car" to drive 3 miles in inner-London as a lone occupant isn't even worth my contempt I'm afraid.

 

Absolutely agree...the number of these things locally lumbering around on good ordinary roads,where a 4x4 has no place,is amazing....mostly for the school runs,and mostly by those who need to be seen in this yr's car.

 

Hey Alex - we are now three - this from that BBC link Lee put up:
"I'm amazed by the attitude of some people in this forum! You do not have a human right to low fuel costs, despite what GWB might say. The oil price is high because it is a finite resource and it's running out. Get over it and wake up to the fact that it is morally and intellectually wrong to drive a 4x4 quasi-assault vehicle half a mile to drop your children off for school.
Ben, Derby, UK"

What a star!

 

When?

And when the economy shrinks and the productive part can no longer afford to pay you, what will you do?

Paul

 

Watched bit of a prog on ch 5 last night about the worlds 'mightiest' mining machines. America (who else) and German had some crazy machinery that literally mines thousands upon thousands of kilo's of coal a day. These things are literally tearing through the coal fields at an alarming rate 24 hrs a day. It was very worring to see how easily these people are just raping the earth. BIG trouble brewing.

 

Well I know that Dom and I work in similar areas, not related to travel, trade, exports, etc, we support and provide information, which they'll always be a need for, thankfully I got out of the motor trade although I liked it a lot, I didn't see a future in it, gues I was right!

Long live the BICYCLE! I'll have no problem getting to work! ta

 

Who knows? Soon enough, and watch you don't get sand in your eye while your head's buried down there...

As for productive part, I'm not worried, since global starvation will off us all within the next 20 years anyway.

And yeah, as with Lee, long live the bike - I won't have to dodge this cretins in ponce-mobils dropping off their cannon-ball kids at school - maybe making the fat gits walk would do everyone some good eh?