fuel prices start to bite

[hamster]

You remember Thatcher, it was she (or should I say it?) that shut down the pits and left us dependant upon imports, much of it from our enemies, for our energy.

The worrying question for us chaps and chapesses is, what will the motorists do for getting about when they can no longer afford their jungle juice? We know their ethics and morality from their behaviour. Lock up your bikes.

Actually most of our oil comes from Norway. I think they stopped being our enemies around the year 900. Less than 4% comes from the Middle East.

[JohnW]

RPI 1976 - 19995

This was the top of google. Shows inflation figures at beginning of 1976 exceed Thatcher's 1980 high. It was even worse in 1975. I'm no fan of Thatcher, but the inflation at the start of her government was all inherited from the Wilson, Calaghan, Healey era. As in 'Crisis? What crisis.'

Thanks tc - I stand corrected.

JohnW.