Sunday 4 March 2012

petrol

I put £10 of petrol into my car last night to go and collect my housemate from work.

The sad reality is that this didn't even give me a quarter tank of petrol. Now admittedly the petrol pin on the Kia Rio is questionable in its accuracy, inasmuch as if I'm driving up a hill I have substantially less petrol than if I'm driving down one. Living in Leeds, which is essentially just a mass of hills, means that I scarcely get an accurate idea of where I can get to on the petrol in my car.

It's a sad state of affairs, not only the price of the petrol itself but the fact that as a nation we seem to just accept it as the norm.
It is not the norm. We pay substantially more than our European neighbours. Even the Greeks, who have no economy to speak of.

Okay, time to do some philosophy, ethics, world religions, peace and peacemaking and New Testament... probably should have done this earlier!

PS, Happy Birthday Booth m'love!

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