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[Kevin Wood]

This will come back and hurt soon.

Get your meat from a butchers not Tescos

Damned right. Mate of mine runs a farm. Sells all of his meat through local outlets, farmer's markets and a farm shop, as that's the only way he can survive these days. Fantastic stuff it is too. He makes the best sausages I have ever tasted.

We also have a great independant butchers in our village.

Taste produce from either and you realise what rubbish the supermarkets are pushing on us.

Problem is, most people can't be @rsed to go anywhere else, never mind the quality. We have said butchers, a greengrocers and a general store at the end of our road, about 10 mins walk away, and I still see Tesco delivery vans arriving at neighbours' houses on a regular basis.

If we take the path of least effort all the time I guess we're going to be exploited. :-/

Kevin

[Varche]

Today 1 euro 20 cents. Gone up 3 cents in two days. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of fuel anywhere so why is the price so high? Is it just in everyones (except us the consumer) interests for it to keep going up?

I think it is an absolute scandal in the UK the way that farmers are treated. I saw an article on milk the other day. the farmers were getting very little more than years ago despite costs having rocketed. The supermarkets trot out the rubbish about housewives wanting rock bottom prices. If the housewives wasted just a little less (throwing over bought stuff out just because it had reached the packet sell by date and so on) then they could afford to pay a few pence more per litre which could be passed on directly to the farmer. Or is that too simple. Instead cows in UK fields may just be a memory in the not too distant future. Still then the UK could buy its milk from an EU country at whatever price they wanted to charge the supermarkets then.

Here I have a vested interest in the price of olive oil which has remained constant despite labour costs, fuel and chemicals rocketing. Chemicals for May spraying cost nearly twice as much as last year alone. It is a mad world.

varche  

[Kevin Wood]

Or is that too simple. Instead cows in UK fields may just be a memory in the not too distant future. Still then the UK could buy its milk from an EU country at whatever price they wanted to charge the supermarkets then.
 

It would be like all the rest of the items vital to our national infrastructure - energy supply and distribution, transport, services, etc. Sell it off overseas to the highest bidder for a fast buck then watch helplessly as they get the thumbscrews out.

Kevin

[Danny]

petrol 108.9ppl, LPG 50ppl

but i'll add this pic of tesco express Esso station in Bolton from 8th May and I will say now... it has NOT been photoshopped!

[albitz]

pulled into sainsburys yesterday,range showing 18 miles left,in a rush,filled up with super,didnt realise until it was nearly full,cost 75 quid

[amigov6]

I managed to get £29.46 worth of V-Power into the Westfield yesterday. It's only got a 27 Litre tank.

When I first built it 8 years ago I couldn't get anywhere near 20 quid.

Kevin

It`s truly shocking how fuel prices are soaring: last week, I ploughed/harrowed/rolled my fields in the tractor for three days (averaged out at 210 litres a day) burning nearly £447 of red-diesel........last time it was ploughed; 2 years ago, the bill would`ve been almost exactly half.  

Did you sow the good seed on the land?

[waspy]

£127.9p at my nearest Texaco for diesel. In real terms= £5.80 a gallon.
I've started biking to work, takes me 40 mins & i only have half a mile of roads to go on   So Mr Clown stick your £5.80 up your ESRA  

[TheBoy]

113.9p unleaded and 127.9p diesel in brackley.  Which reminds me, I need to fill up...

[Debs.]

Did you sow the good seed on the land?

...a harvest festival favourite hymn!

[HolyCount]

Popped in for fuel this morning -- garage down road is at 113.9 unleaded and 125.9 diesel. Unleaded in the next garage 200 yds away was 115.9 -- didn't catch the diesel price there -- I was still crying  

[FRE07962128]

Popped in for fuel this morning -- garage down road is at 113.9 unleaded and 125.9 diesel. Unleaded in the next garage 200 yds away was 115.9 -- didn't catch the diesel price there -- I was still crying  

If you are crying over this Holy Count, read what I have placed under a different thread:

"Today the price of a barrel of oil has reached $135,  with the Daily Telegraph (front page) quoting economists predicting $200 is now a distinct possibility as demand from China and India continues to escalate with no signs of slowing down.  They state the price per litre will soon be hitting an average of £1.25.

The same economists are also quoted as predicting the price of fuel at the pumps is set to constantly rise over the next 8 YEARS, to reach within that time at least £1.50 per litre! They are therefore advising all major users of fuel (airlines, transport concerns, etc) to secure / purchase fuel deals at today's prices on their requirements for the next 8 years.

It is a shame that all oof members cannot club together and secure such deals for the next eight years by buying and storing fuel in bulk.  We could make a killing if we had the money to do it in the first place!

Just proves how the rich are going to get richer, and the rest of us much, much poorer!.....and the Government are not only enjoying inflation linked petrol tax of around 50p per litre, but escalating VAT on the ever increasing price now in excess, I am led to believe, of 11p, equating to a total of 61p per litre in all to the Government.    ;    

Who's for joining the planned for hauliers protests against fuel prices?"

 
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[Growler]

Thats just it Gaffer we just don't know how to protest here, take the french when they strike it causes problems even this side of the channel! now that's how you get you point across bring the place to a standstill.

[Growler]

This will come back and hurt soon.

Get your meat from a butchers not Tescos

Damned right. Mate of mine runs a farm. Sells all of his meat through local outlets, farmer's markets and a farm shop, as that's the only way he can survive these days. Fantastic stuff it is too. He makes the best sausages I have ever tasted.

We also have a great independant butchers in our village.

Taste produce from either and you realise what rubbish the supermarkets are pushing on us.

Problem is, most people can't be @rsed to go anywhere else, never mind the quality. We have said butchers, a greengrocers and a general store at the end of our road, about 10 mins walk away, and I still see Tesco delivery vans arriving at neighbours' houses on a regular basis.

If we take the path of least effort all the time I guess we're going to be exploited. :-/

Kevin

I have to agree with what you say about supermarket quality meat, a few years ago I worked in a chilled warehouse where chilled foods for all the major supermarkets would be collected and then distributed to the regional hubs of each supermarket chain. Some of the meat (and food in general) that came through I wouldn't feed to a dog it was disgusting and put me off supermarket meat forever.

[Richie London]

1.16 unleaded
1.28 diesel
texaco seem to be the dearest garages around here.
m8s car is in for repair after a WOMAN ( ) backed into him. courtesy car, landrover discovery, reckons hes put in 150 quid in it in  a week  

richie

[Entwood]

Smug smile ...  

LPG ... 54 p /litre

Consumption on petrol : 23.52 mpg @ £114.9 = 22.18 p/mile
Consumption on LPG   :  20.03 mpg @ £054.0 = 12.23 p/mile

saving .... 10 p a mile or £30 a tank full

(admittedly the LPG figures are only over 400 miles, and I haven't towed with it yet  ..... still a tad new for a definitive answer )