I've just filled my car up with petrol.
It cost nearly as much as I have paid to fly to North Africa in a few weeks time.
Back in 2000, we had a series of blockades which severely restricted fuel supplies as a reaction to petrol creeping up to 80p per litre. Yesterday, I found myself out in the sticks after rushing around and forgetting to go to a 'cheap' petrol station, and ended up paying £134.90 per litre. Needless to say, it was just a tenners worth to tide me over.
What has happened in the last eleven years? Have we become a more meek and accepting society? or have we merely worked out that these days, you just can't stick it to the man?
4 comments:
£134 a litre!! I'd say you were ripped off. Even expensive petrol stations only cost max £1.50 a litre.
Ah, check before posting.
Please move that decimal point! Blimey, you were quick off the mark!
If I paid £1.50, I honestly think I would have pooed myself. Is it that much over there?
The government always gets their own way. We're just canon fodder. It's depressing.
People moaning here at $3.00 / gallon... Egypt crisis meant I had to $3.18 yesterday in hicksville.. I nearly broke out in acold sweat!
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