Is it just me or has this affected the amount of traffic on the road this last couple of weeks

 

This week has been a piece of piss to get into work.

Isn't is half term up there?

Isn't is half term up there?

 

Last week where I live.

As said in that other thread...the price has hopefully got the untaxed, uninsured scrotes off the roads and onto buses and the like, as they cannot afford to fill up as much, hence leaving it much easier for the rest of us to go about our daily lives.

 

Amen.

Not particularly easier going into Manchester.

rolling road block thingy to protest the high price of fuel

price of oil has started to drop...

 

 

lets see how long that takes to get to petrol stations and if the rises in food prices are also reversed.

 

 

as me dad says 'price of spuds always goes up, no matter the weather.'

Oil is about 120 dollars a barrel isn't it? No-one who buys bottled water can have any caue for complaint because a barrel of Evian would equate to about 500 dollars a barrel. A barrel of orange juice at London prices (?3.35 a bottle two weeks ago, the theiving hounds - good job the taxpayer bought mine) would be about 927 dollars and a barrel of Hewlett-Packard printer ink 470, 638 dollars.

 

So perhaps more of an outrage is not how expensive oil is but how expensive all those other things are as well.

 

You've been reading the Maggie Tate factoid of the day.

rolling road block thingy to protest the high price of fuel

 

We had one of them in Plymouth city centre yesterday.

 

Nobody noticed the difference because there are so many traffic lights and predestrian crossings you never get out of first gear anyway.

I've been in Plymouth quite a lot lately. It's mysteriously both sh?t and good at the same time, in the sense that Union St is good and the rest of it is sh?t. It has also got a 24 hour loyalist pub about six minutes walk from Stonehouse, with a roundabout along the way surrounded by kebab shops, then the whore zone. Handy.

We had one of them in Plymouth city centre yesterday.

 

Nobody noticed the difference because there are so many traffic lights and predestrian crossings you never get out of first gear anyway.

 

Chocca with combine harvesters ?

That go-slow protest was a bloody joke this morning.

 

What is the point of doing it at 8.00am when the M62, M60 and M602 are already a rolling car park.

 

What I saw of it, the 400 bikers in the 'protest' were travelling quicker than the normal rush hour traffic.

I drive 350 miles a week and the cost of fuel hasn't made that much difference to me.

 

I get 650 miles from a full tank, which costs ?60 at the minute. So, at ?1.27 a litre I'm getting 650 miles from 47.2 litres.

 

My monthly fuel bill is about ?130-?150 depending on meetings elsewhere.

 

Back when it was ?1 a litre my fuel bill would have been ?101-?115. The difference is less than a tenner a week - hardly bank-busting is it.

 

I'm quite happy for it to go up if less people are on the road as a consequence.

Oil is about 120 dollars a barrel isn't it? No-one who buys bottled water can have any caue for complaint because a barrel of Evian would equate to about 500 dollars a barrel. A barrel of orange juice at London prices (?3.35 a bottle two weeks ago, the theiving hounds - good job the taxpayer bought mine) would be about 927 dollars and a barrel of Hewlett-Packard printer ink 470, 638 dollars.

 

So perhaps more of an outrage is not how expensive oil is but how expensive all those other things are as well.

 

You've been reading the Maggie Tate factoid of the day.

Bloody supply and demand

Bloody supply and demand

 

With oil though, this isn't the true answer.

 

The supply is there but OPEC is a body answerable to no one.

 

They are holding back on supply to push prices up so (alledgedly) they can be in a strong negotiating position with the new President of the World - when the US elections finally finish.

I drive 350 miles a week and the cost of fuel hasn't made that much difference to me.

 

I get 650 miles from a full tank, which costs ?60 at the minute. So, at ?1.27 a litre I'm getting 650 miles from 47.2 litres.

 

My monthly fuel bill is about ?130-?150 depending on meetings elsewhere.

 

Back when it was ?1 a litre my fuel bill would have been ?101-?115. The difference is less than a tenner a week - hardly bank-busting is it.

 

I'm quite happy for it to go up if less people are on the road as a consequence.

 

is between 750 and a 1000 quid (earned) a year, more than most folk have got as a rise this year

I currently spend ?165 a week on diesel: When it was ?1 a litre, I spent ?125 a week.

 

As my esteemed colleague Mr Casino rightly points out: it's still money. I'm ?40 a week worse off, which is over ?2,000 a year.

Would you not rather have the extra in your pay packet? Or are you happy for the dour Scot to take it?

Not much short of ?50 a week it's costing me to get too and from work. Or as I look at it it's a weekly shop at ASDA.

Or are you happy for the dour Scot to take it?

 

Am I f?ck happy with that robbing thieving c?nt in charge, let him (and his Scottish brothers) f?ck off back to Scotland to THEIR assembly, which if I'm not mistaken Labour created. Oh while we are at it divert the North Sea Oil to Grimsby, rant over

I'm more than happy to pay more if less people are on the road.

 

If volume of traffic remains the same then obviously I'd rather not pay more for the same result.

 

All I'm saying is that it doesn't affect me too much...fortunately my pay has risen over the last year at a greater rate than the increase in (my) fuel cost.

I'm more than happy to pay more if less people are on the road.

 

If volume of traffic remains the same then obviously I'd rather not pay more for the same result.

 

All I'm saying is that it doesn't affect me too much...fortunately my pay has risen over the last year at a greater rate than the increase in (my) fuel cost.

 

To paraphrase your post: " I'm alright, Jack!"

Not much short of ?50 a week it's costing me to get too and from work. Or as I look at it it's a weekly shop at ASDA.

 

Aye I know.

 

BCG

Surviving on jam butties

Aye I know.

 

BCG

Surviving on jam butties

 

Left Wolverhampton 4:20pm yesterday - on a 'normal' run, at that time, i'd reckon on about 2 1/2 hours as everything stops at M6 junction 17/18.

 

Made it home for the start of the 6 o'clock news.

 

Oh, and my new company car is low emissions, and my petrol is all in.as a result, from April, I now pay around ?35 a month less tax.

 

JSL

that'll not last