Fuel prices.

Presumably that's why he didn't call an election!

"Austin Shackles" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I shall not repeat that it's 1.13ppl derv here at Tesco with my 5ppl voucher today :-)

Still 50ppl too much mind!

Lee D

Apparently diesel is £1.13 without vouchers at Tesco in Hatfield.

Regards

nemo2

Yeah dropping pdq here too... 112ppl locally now :-) ... get your jerry cans racked up!!!

108 round here at Morrison's and Asda

DieSea

48p for diesel in .nz after yesterday's drop, and 63p for petrol.

You can go off people!

Bloody hell

10 days later and Tesco Carlisle are 107.9, 102.9 with the voucher. Unleaded was 94.9.

Hasn't worked so far. I'm glad to say.

Doubled? and the rest!

Found this interesting site

From 1879 right through WWI and WWII through 1969 the price of oil was around $20/barrel (corrected for inflation). Take a look at this plot From 1985 through to 2002 it was $20 to $30/barrel it's only since then that it has shot up, note that graph peaks at $60 in 2007, this year it more than doubled that to over $140. $140 is almost *5* times the price for the 17 years '85 - '02.

I fully expect those plots don't tell the full story but it shows how the price of oil has gone meteoric in the last few years. The oil producing states where doing very nicely thankyou at $30, thing how they are doing at $60 or $120. There is one helluva lot of (our) money swilling about somewhere? Or is it just getting sucked into the monetary blackhole created by speculators on other over valued materials?