My little drop of advice
They have just delivered my order of heating oil.
I got 500 litres – €882!
In the not too distant past I have had a full tank of 1000 litres delivered for around €400.
There is a lot in the news about electricity and gas prices rising with the odd mention of petrol and diesel thrown in. Out Glorious Gubmint wrings its hands in apparent anguish and mutters platitudes about doing all it can to bring prices down.
How about reducing tax? Oh, we can’t do that because of some obscure EU rule, Sorry.
Well,j how about dropping the carbon tax that was bumped up so much in the last budget? No, we can’t do that. Think of the climate! We have committed ourselves to single handedly saving the planet from total destruction.
So what the blind fuck are you doing? Oh, we’re doing everything we can. We did give you back a couple of hundred off your leccy bill?
Right! That will just about fill the car with petrol a couple of times, but why am I still paying nearly €1,800 for a tank of oil which I need to keep the house from freezing over? Oh, that’s the war in Ukraine. Think of the poor refugee children!
Fuck!
There is a census coming up soon. I have the form. There is a box in it where I can write a message to be read in 100 years time. Jayzus but someone is bored in the Census Office? My message will be short and sweet.
“If you have invented time travel then keep the fuck away from 2020 onwards”
Have you not noticed there’s a war on and petroleum prices are up substantially as a result. Perhaps you think the Government should send the army to keep the peace in Ukraine ans so bring oil prices. Remember the 70s and the oil price shock? A lesson from it that external price shocks cannot be mitigated for long.
The other lesson is that, whatever the event which causes the price to spike, it never returns to its previous level once the cause-event is over. Funny that.
Those prices started rising long before the war started. The energy rate of inflation is way up in the double figures and prices are continuing to go up. I can understand how gas is affected but oil?
Indeed I remember those bad days in the 70s. I’m a little surprised [and delighted] there isn’t a rash of panic buying here.
Give ’em time, Grandad, give ’em time!