Petrol Queues
Queues are already forming this Sunday locally, everyone is filling up ahead of this coming week. Only half of the pumps were fully operational today and the price has lowered since last weeks highs. The Government say a response to a protest over the price of fuel would be to actually ration the fuel.
The most expensive station in the country is in .. Wolverhampton : £1:07 and £1:06.9, but what strikes me as odd is the fact that people are blaming the Government for this when they aren’t blaming the Government for British Gas saying bills are going up by 14%. There’s a whole load of “tax” issues that are blinding people on the Petrol issue, one guy said well why does a hurricane affect our prices and I thought oh jees, wake up. Then we get the folks saying, OPEC should drill more, well hello you can’t ask for the impossible they are already over said quotas by about 2mbpd (million barrels per day) and since the iRaq war oil output from that country has dropped drastically due to there being a lack of secuity focus on the feilds. There’s a serious “How dumb are you? if the war was about Oil you did more than fail, you balls it up good and proper” going round in my head and yeah I personally got involved in this sauce recently after 23 years of being addicted to oil by proxy (traveling miles to school, getting my food from a supermarket) but at least my eyes are open.
This is our first taste of the coming energy crisis, it’s simple supply and demand, and we have to deal with it because we can’t ask the impossible, we can’t get what isn’t there, we can only look at living in a more sustainable way, and that means cutting down on internet shopping too! It goes far beyond the forecourts, I wish we would seriously collectivly wake up to reality and act now to change our lifestyles, collectivly, it’s not about petrol, it drills far more deeply into everyday life, we have to look at how we use energy and where we get it from, and dhurh hello, the sun suplies enough energy in one day to power the United States for a week …… where’s the disconnect?
Utillty bills are next, fuel poverty will once again be an issue in the UK.