Popular Post Dante_Lockhart Posted March 8, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 8, 2022 Had an interview on the radio with the general public about rising petrol prices earlier. One of the guys said "Well, It won't affect me. I always put £20 in and I'll still put £20 in" 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OutByEaster? Posted March 8, 2022 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted March 8, 2022 47 minutes ago, Dante_Lockhart said: Had an interview on the radio with the general public about rising petrol prices earlier. One of the guys said "Well, It won't affect me. I always put £20 in and I'll still put £20 in" That's always been the way I've thought about it. Petrol costs £40. I will say though that the petrol has got a lot worse lately, hardly lasts at all. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bielesibub Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 5 hours ago, markavfc40 said: This is from Tamworth services earlier this morning. Not sure what's its like up in the Midlands, down by me, when I filled up, the local ESSO diesel was 23p a litre more expensive than the local Tesco. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 I remember when they used to show prices in Gallons , I remember seeing it at £1.70 Now its £1.70 a litre and here's the shocking part, diesel is more expensive than petrol though much cheaper to refine. Again profiteering off supply and demand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted March 8, 2022 Moderator Share Posted March 8, 2022 3 hours ago, MakemineVanilla said: It would seem likely that you would need to nationalise the power industry to introduce price controls, Agreed Quote and that cheap reliable energy would mean compromising Green aspirations. At present energy is rationed by price and so a system of rationing would need to be introduced. The industrial revolution was only made possible by cheap energy - expensive energy promises to have the reverse affect. I don't agree here, though. The cheapest sources of energy are the Green ones. At present energy is only rationed by price if/where it is unaffordable for people or businesses. More realistically usage is determined by operational or personal needs. I think there was rather more than the availability of cheap energy that drove or made possible the Industrial revolution. Quote Green taxes have risen by 40% since Johnson took power and I expect his predicted take of over £16bn by 2024, is a massive underestimation. Is that right? Seems at odds with what I thought were Tory principles. Do you have a source? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 3 hours ago, blandy said: Green taxes have risen by 40% since Johnson took power and I expect his predicted take of over £16bn by 2024, is a massive underestimation. Is that right? Seems at odds with what I thought were Tory principles. Do you have a source? Correction - Johnson's Green taxes are set to increase by 40%, not as above - apologies. https://www.cityam.com/uks-green-tax-burden-to-increase-by-40-per-cent-during-johnsons-premiership/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted March 8, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 8, 2022 Hahaha! My electric car isn't costing me any more to run. Hahahaha! Spoiler .... yet .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted March 8, 2022 Moderator Share Posted March 8, 2022 1 hour ago, MakemineVanilla said: Correction - Johnson's Green taxes are set to increase by 40%, not as above - apologies. https://www.cityam.com/uks-green-tax-burden-to-increase-by-40-per-cent-during-johnsons-premiership/ "The TaxPayers’ Alliance calculates" was enough for me. They're a tad ideological for my liking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 18 hours ago, mrchnry said: I passed my test in 2015 as it was bang on £1 a litre. Yeah, it peaked in 2012 and then dropped a fair bit. Can't remember why! I think it was c80p when i started driving Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 6 hours ago, bickster said: I once had an American in the car as a passenger just around the time that the petrol price just hit £1 a litre for the first time He announced to me "Jesus H Christ if fuel ever hit that price per gallon in the US there'd be a revolution" I then had to tell him that the price of a gallon was 4.55 times the price displayed He was genuinely speechless for a short while I hope you then didn't tell him we use different size gallons to him! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 8, 2022 Author Share Posted March 8, 2022 The place I bought my fuel last week for £1.55 (not the cheapest but I wanted to buy beer at the same time ) is now £1.75. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrchnry Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 On 06/03/2022 at 17:12, bickster said: Announcement by who? The government? I don’t imagine that’s remotely true to be honest. Why would they hold a press conference just to say “Suck it up!” I'm guessing today's announcement about the banning of Russian oil is what it was about as there are now queues for the cheaper petrol station by me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Yeah the Daily Mail are reporting 'big queues' at supermarkets. To be honest, i'd rather pay 20p more and not queue for 30 mins! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 The upcoming gas/electric price increase was a bit of an abstract concept to me (knew it was coming and was going to bite but didn’t seem tangible) - had the numbers through from the energy company today and it got pretty real, gonna be having to find an extra £50 a month (no idea how this compares to other households, if it’s relatively good or bad etc.). Grim and is only going to get tougher, with council tax increase and continually rising petrol prices etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid4ever Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 5 hours ago, Lichfield Dean said: Hahaha! My electric car isn't costing me any more to run. Hahahaha! Reveal hidden contents .... yet .... Oh yes guess the guy who gets his electric car in April just after the new price cap. Just hoping the BIK pays the new bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turvontour Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Oil prices fell 15% yesterday! Cue petrol prices tumbling, I dont think. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 10, 2022 Author Share Posted March 10, 2022 14 minutes ago, turvontour said: Oil prices fell 15% yesterday! Cue petrol prices tumbling, I dont think. I saw that, UAE increasing output. How long until prices drop at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted March 10, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 10, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Diesel was £2 per liter here yesterday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 On 08/03/2022 at 15:31, blandy said: The cheapest sources of energy are the Green ones. A don't you tend to get the benefits of this long term though ..and governments by and large can only think in short term ? The Uk govt scrapped the Swansea tidal lagoon due to the cost , the excuse was that by 2050 it would cost £20bn more than a wind and nuclear combined project , presumably that same cost exercise carried out now would show a different figure ? as technology moves us ever further forward (there is now the Blue Eden project which seems to be proposing to build a variant of it ? ) its yankee $ data but in 1956,the cost of one watt of solar capacity was $1,825 , now estimated to be $.70 per watt , 85% of that drop in cost has happened in the last decade 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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