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Dingdong wrote: ↑10 Dec 2022, 9:18pm Anyone using pellets? Three shot up since last year.

Not a surprise as we are no longer sourcing pellets from Russia. I think at some times as much as 80% of our pellet supply was coming from Russia, so the Ukraine invasion has had an evident impact. And it's other items too, a few months ago l was at a fencing demo (fencing as in stock), the company mentioned sourcing problems as previously they had used the Azovstal steel works in Mariupol. No prizes for guessing why that was no longer possible.

al_yrpal wrote: ↑4 Dec 2022, 4:11pm Seen £1.55 here in the land of cider and cheddar and diesel down to £1.785. not down enough yet to tempt me to fill up. But, as observed earlier low prices means bees around honeypots.

Al

Around here, the supermarkets are now some of the dearest retailers of petrol and diesel. But some smaller outfits are selling petrol at below £1.50. The lowest I saw last week was just under £1.46 for petrol. At this Murco garage: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.56919 ... 384!8i8192 But diesel remains about 30p dearer, which nullifies any financial benefit of having a diesel car.

Diesel was £1.62 at the community fuel station in Hawes, Yorkshire yesterday. And there was me thinking I got a good deal at £1.73 filling the tank up at home before setting off!

Yes, its obvious that filling stations are profiteering massively. The Govt is aware and there are rumblings of action...but as usual, nothing.

My solution would be a national boycott on buying anything at all in filling station shops. But...how to organise it?

Al

al_yrpal wrote: ↑11 Dec 2022, 9:43am Yes, its obvious that filling stations are profiteering massively. The Govt is aware and there are rumblings of action...but as usual, nothing.

My solution would be a national boycott on buying anything at all in filling station shops. But...how to organise it?

Al

Ha ha - just give up drivin'.

Personally I'm hoping that circumstances will force most to to so - although it seems unlikely that such circumstances would not also have many other deleterious consequences. But if it's just fuel prices becoming unaffordable and nothing else, think of how that would force the reorganisation of Broken Britain for the better.

I know many would groan, moan, gripe and growl about having to change their ways and the price of bananas ..... but maybe such drastic changes to the way we're all so profligate and spoilt would make it a better place? Perhaps it would even avert the coming disaster as weather gets real bitey?

I know - no chance. We'd rather drive over the existential cliff in our guzzlers whilst chattering on a phone about the latest celebrity postures & faux pas as we run over three cyclists to get to the edge sooner.

Cugel, keeping my thrusting muscles in good order in case it becomes bikes-only-possible.

audaxjk wrote: ↑11 Dec 2022, 8:02am Diesel was £1.62 at the community fuel station in Hawes, Yorkshire yesterday. And there was me thinking I got a good deal at £1.73 filling the tank up at home before setting off!

The filling station in Hawes is consistently at least 10p less than anywhere else within a 100mile radius,I always fill up when out that way on my motorcycle and feel peeved if I need less than 12ltres

Nurses are underpaid like other NHS staff.There is no magic money tree.If you want nurses to starve reduce tax generally but one cannot have both.
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briansnail wrote: ↑11 Dec 2022, 2:38pm Nurses are underpaid like other NHS staff.There is no magic money tree.If you want nurses to starve reduce tax generally but one cannot have both.
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Well, I looks at it this way ......

If we want a nurse & a doc to preserve us for a bit longer rather than letting us die (and realising there is no afterlife .... well, we could if there was, but then there would be, so .....) we need to preserve the lives of the docs & nursies. This means giving them enough to eat and not freeze to death, at the very least. If one wants something more than a begrudging service, perhaps enough to allow them to have clothes and to go to the pub once a month?

Money, then, seems to be getting in the way. (Concept-of, I mean). Perhaps the real answer to all these sort of issues is to do away with money and just have the barter of goods and services?

You realise that this would mean no moneylenders (those banking dastards) and parasitic shareholders or other financial do-nowts-but-milk-others-labour? That would be good, eh?

But no pensioners either! WHo will keep me in the manner to which I've become accustomed!?

Cugel, loafing about the hoose with a head cold and hoping I don't need a nurse or doc.

Saw the cheapest for a long time today, 134.9p/l unleaded, 155.9p/l diesel
Jet station on A815 outside Dunoon, so not exactly close to the main trunk network.
If they can sell it at that price there, there's no reason it should be higher anywhere else, cheaper business rates maybe but surely offset by being either a long drive or a ferry ride for the tanker.

£145.9 petrol/£165.9 diesel at Thornfalcon on the A358. Forecourt bursting at the seams with queuing traffic.