Von Boy wrote:
Well that would be the end of the country as we know it.................a silly comment.................food to name one thing would go up well beyond the cost for most to afford it.............how do the super markets get the goods to the
shop !
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Maybe if there weren't so many "out of town" supermarkets we might all use a little less petrol. Maybe if we stopped demanding out of season food brought at great expense by plane thousands of miles away we might all use a little less petrol.
If you want luxury items (and yes, Mangoes ARE a luxury item) then be prepared to pay a realistic price for them!
Real food is actually still cheap, and would be even cheaper if locally sourced. The food that *would* go up in price is all the "value added" stuff like microwave ready meals, etc.
So overall not a bad thing to get rid of... we'd save valuable resources not having processing plants and the transportation involved, and we'd all eat more healthily!
Von Boy... I suggest you get an education before posting here again!
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Bob Singleton
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"But how to make Liverpool economically prosperous? If only there was some way for Liverpudlians to profit from going on and on about the past in a whiny voice."
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mrmcfister
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Brown gets 70 p litre in tax.In Venezuela you can get a tank of petrol for $2..you do the maths.Dont blame world market.Oil is cheap its the tax that does it.And remember that next year yet again BP and Shell will report record profits...!
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Bob wrote;
Von Boy... I suggest you get an education before posting here again!
!tears!
I will get my student loan straight after you answer how teachers, nurses, cleaners etc. etc...... will get to work?.............. don't say public transport......that runs on fuel, not hot air...............
their cost of fuel will increase.....or are you proposing lower fuel tax for public sector workers ??????.............if so, then that really is the end !
!sick!
Von Boy... I suggest you get an education before posting here again!
!tears!
I will get my student loan straight after you answer how teachers, nurses, cleaners etc. etc...... will get to work?.............. don't say public transport......that runs on fuel, not hot air...............
their cost of fuel will increase.....or are you proposing lower fuel tax for public sector workers ??????.............if so, then that really is the end !
!sick!
Proud to be Von Boy
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Increasing the cost of fuel even further would have an interesting effect on business in the UK, although it would be good to get those bloody trucks off the road along with their thick as shit drivers.
Public transport?? Fuck off. The bus has to be the most annoying thing on God's earth, how I hate being stuck in traffic behind one of these stinking monoliths that move at speeds that make glaciers look like Michael Schumacher. Why on earth do they have to stop every five fucking metres just so some pathetic specimen can shuffle off. Why didn't you get off two bus-lengthes ago when it stopped to vent another load of human trash? You might lose a bit of weight if you actually walked anywhere you lardy, unable to afford a car twat!
There's an old saying that if you are regularly seen on a bus then you can be considered to be a loser in life. It's a bit hard on the driver however.
Trains? Too regularly blown up by nutty terrorists. The car is king, you get to travel on your own or with a person of your choosing plus you can control the temperature, the choice of music etc. Cars are fucking great.
Also upping the cost of fuel is pretty harsh on those who choose to live in the glorious rural areas of the UK rather than our grotty cities as they, in many cases, have no access to public transport anyway.
Drive cars and smoke tabs. Fuck 'em and their law.
Public transport?? Fuck off. The bus has to be the most annoying thing on God's earth, how I hate being stuck in traffic behind one of these stinking monoliths that move at speeds that make glaciers look like Michael Schumacher. Why on earth do they have to stop every five fucking metres just so some pathetic specimen can shuffle off. Why didn't you get off two bus-lengthes ago when it stopped to vent another load of human trash? You might lose a bit of weight if you actually walked anywhere you lardy, unable to afford a car twat!
There's an old saying that if you are regularly seen on a bus then you can be considered to be a loser in life. It's a bit hard on the driver however.
Trains? Too regularly blown up by nutty terrorists. The car is king, you get to travel on your own or with a person of your choosing plus you can control the temperature, the choice of music etc. Cars are fucking great.
Also upping the cost of fuel is pretty harsh on those who choose to live in the glorious rural areas of the UK rather than our grotty cities as they, in many cases, have no access to public transport anyway.
Drive cars and smoke tabs. Fuck 'em and their law.
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You sound like a whiny Yank stuck in a Hummer - going nowhere fast.LOL !grin!
Re: Petrol prices - Smokescreen?
The debate about petrol rages on and on. Personally I love classic cars, use them for pleasure and commute mostly in other ways, but seeing as the modern car has turned into a consumable appliance like a washing machine or other, maybe a new way of fueling would be more keeping with modern thinking. Certainly, along with your SATNAV tracking systems and your black boxes to moniter where you are going and what you are saying, there must be some sort of high techology way of propulsion seeing as they've got everyone hooked on travel. After all, cycling and walking are dangerous too..
I'm more concerned about what there is to look forward to in the future once everyone is fully monitored, logged, cooked and cleaned. Petrol will be the least of our worries.
I'm more concerned about what there is to look forward to in the future once everyone is fully monitored, logged, cooked and cleaned. Petrol will be the least of our worries.
They're locking them up today, they're throwing away the key...I wonder who it be tomorrow, you or me?
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What a waste
"Sustainability report
The chocolate biccie paradox
Larry Elliott
Saturday April 15, 2006
Guardian
The Germans make the cars, the Italians make the clothes, the French make the wine, the British make the pharmaceuticals - and then they all buy and sell from each other.
That's the way international trade is supposed to work. Each country specialises in what it does best, sells its produce on the world market and uses the money raised to buy things it can't make efficiently for itself.
That's the theory. According to the UK Interdependence Report, it doesn't quite work out that way in practice.
Take chocolate-covered biscuits (of the small pack variety). Each year the UK exports 1,145 tonnes of these delicacies to the Germans. The Germans, meanwhile, export 1,728 tonnes to us. Or how about chocolate-covered waffles and wafers, again in easy to handle, snack packs. The government's own data shows that in 2004 17,240 tonnes left these shores, passing en route the 17,590 tonnes coming in the other direction.
And so it goes on. The British poultry industry sent 5,417 tonnes of fresh, boneless chicken cuts across the Channel to France in 2004, and the French sent 3,952 tonnes back to us. We export more than 10,000 tonnes of milk and cream from the lush pastures of southern England; we import virtually the same from the cows chewing the cud in northern France.
NEF says there is a serious side to the statistic showing that the 465 tonnes of gingerbread coming into the country is matched by the 460 tonnes leaving these shores. It argues that the environmental impact of "lorries passing in the night" is not included in the price of goods in the shops, and that much of the trade that is going on is actually ecologically wasteful.
"Shipping vast quantities of identical goods backwards and forwards around the world matters for three big reasons," said Andrew Simms of NEF. "First, it's a towering monument to economic and environmental inefficiency, as meaningless and wasteful as a job-creation scheme that pays people to shift a pile of rocks from one end of a worksite to another and back again.
"More profoundly, it matters because we face upheaval from potentially irreversible climate change due, in large part, to the burning of fuel, whilst at the same time there is rising conflict over access to dwindling oil supplies. The third reason is that a global economy built on, and blind to, its own fossil fuel dependence simply cannot survive in its current form."
Guardian Unlimited ? Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006"
Mart
"Sustainability report
The chocolate biccie paradox
Larry Elliott
Saturday April 15, 2006
Guardian
The Germans make the cars, the Italians make the clothes, the French make the wine, the British make the pharmaceuticals - and then they all buy and sell from each other.
That's the way international trade is supposed to work. Each country specialises in what it does best, sells its produce on the world market and uses the money raised to buy things it can't make efficiently for itself.
That's the theory. According to the UK Interdependence Report, it doesn't quite work out that way in practice.
Take chocolate-covered biscuits (of the small pack variety). Each year the UK exports 1,145 tonnes of these delicacies to the Germans. The Germans, meanwhile, export 1,728 tonnes to us. Or how about chocolate-covered waffles and wafers, again in easy to handle, snack packs. The government's own data shows that in 2004 17,240 tonnes left these shores, passing en route the 17,590 tonnes coming in the other direction.
And so it goes on. The British poultry industry sent 5,417 tonnes of fresh, boneless chicken cuts across the Channel to France in 2004, and the French sent 3,952 tonnes back to us. We export more than 10,000 tonnes of milk and cream from the lush pastures of southern England; we import virtually the same from the cows chewing the cud in northern France.
NEF says there is a serious side to the statistic showing that the 465 tonnes of gingerbread coming into the country is matched by the 460 tonnes leaving these shores. It argues that the environmental impact of "lorries passing in the night" is not included in the price of goods in the shops, and that much of the trade that is going on is actually ecologically wasteful.
"Shipping vast quantities of identical goods backwards and forwards around the world matters for three big reasons," said Andrew Simms of NEF. "First, it's a towering monument to economic and environmental inefficiency, as meaningless and wasteful as a job-creation scheme that pays people to shift a pile of rocks from one end of a worksite to another and back again.
"More profoundly, it matters because we face upheaval from potentially irreversible climate change due, in large part, to the burning of fuel, whilst at the same time there is rising conflict over access to dwindling oil supplies. The third reason is that a global economy built on, and blind to, its own fossil fuel dependence simply cannot survive in its current form."
Guardian Unlimited ? Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006"
Mart
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Perhaps I wasn't being entirely serious Fred you dickhead. God help us!
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Still a damn good impression, oh Rude one!!wink!