Rip Off Petrol Prices

[Bloggsy]

Morrisons petrol now £1.71 per Litre this is 10% ethanol robbing bastards
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If It Aint broke Don't Fix It

[Lone-Wolf]

Wotcha.

As long as petrol is cheap, people won't buy electric cars . . . . now do you see why the cost of petrol has risen ?

( Me ? Cynical ? - never )
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L.W. - www.moonshiners.org.uk

[doggone]

The E10 stuff seems to get at least 10% lower mpg too.
With grain prices about double the ethanol they *must* include will be making it more costly.
Luckily my pickup uses diesel. Oh.

[weasley]

[Easy-X]

Ethanol / Biodiesel is there to increase the price not reduce it

Apparently you can save the planet by making fuel from scratch rather than refining the existing stuff that was made millions of years ago,
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[tatters]

1.87 CAD (1.17 GBP) where l am but l more than make up the cost difference driving a 5.7L V8 that does 15 MPG. Normal prices in the last 10 years have average around 1 CAD (0.63 GBP) so have almost a doubled in 1 year.

Most of the increase here as Canada is a large oil producer has been due to carbon taxes by scumbag Trudeau. 1/3 of my homes natural gas bill each month is fu*king carbon tax.
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[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[P.]

[Easy-X]

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/12/05/m1motorway_460x276.jpg?width=465&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=bc299d9b919c98e6beeaa1d48eb85c01

Cars then...
...no tyre grip
...no traction control
...no decent suspension
...no power steering
...no seat belts
...no air bags
...no crash protection
...highest death rate on the roads
...no speed limit

And now we have cars that practically drive themselves and the lowest death rate historically, even before cars were a thing! But no, 20mph for you, sunshine, 'cos safety
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[A100man]

[Easy-X]

Indeed! No traffic and yet horrendous road accident statistics.

Better roads + better cars + tougher driving tests have all combined, IMHO, to make road travel much safer and yet it's never enough. "Let them eat cake!" Pah, let them live quite, safe and miserable lives is the current mantra
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[doggone]

By the 60s traffic jams were worse than now as town centre bypasses were a rarity.
A few places round here you can still take the original road alongside wider A road and marvel at how tourist buses and ford prefects made it around all the narrow bends and bridges with not enough space for two modern cars to pass.
Most vehicles were significantly smaller though.

An example approaching a cross roads in central Malton - all the traffic now on mainly dual A64 York to Scarborough had to funnel through here. It would be unthinkable now as they still get big tailbacks with local traffic wanting to get to supermarket etc
https://cdn01.eviivo.media/images/d/5c1d18604f6d393182bb50870470663f0f65a5dfe55bada72f29c4a56f649bc4-587498ecdd_v0_w1280xh0_rDEF.JPG

[tatters]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[t121anf]

Paid over £2 per litre for standard unleaded today, joys of a ride in the countryside, still worth every penny.