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Better start saving for next winters fuel bills

TheCatWoman

Today petrol has jumped by 2p a litre on the forecourt, gas has almost doubled in price so we can expect a deepening of the cost of living crisis. Thank you very much to Donal Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu....not.

Ok nobody I know liked the regime in Iran, but just blowing them up was never going to work, did it not occur to them that the Iranians would fight back? The clerical regime in Iran is just as entrenched as the Catholic Church, you wouldn't expect to blow up the pope and St Peters in Rome and have no one to take over. I'm sure the Iranian regime has just as much structure and fall backs as the Catholic Church does. Now we all seem to be getting dragged in, I'm really pleased Starmer said NO to Trump using our bases, there's no legal basis for this war and I suspect that as ever America just wants us along to help with the death toll, it's about time a British PM didn't follow the US blindly into its foreign wars.

Whats even worse, is that from everything they keep saying, they don't even know why they went to war in the first place and as ever theres no plan for what ahppens when the war ends.

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  • ‘Not Our War’ U.S. Allies Balk at Trump’s Strait of Hormuz Demands - NBC article

    Hey I’m glad y’all are fighting back against Trump, but I really, really hope that his nonsense doesn’t impact U.S. relations with NATO post-Trump.

  • in reply to profdanger

    I think everybody thinks Trump is an aberation and when he goes normal relations will resume, thats unless of course we all end up with someone just as bad?

    Trump says he didn't believe NATO allies would come to America's aid if needed, my understanding is that NATO is a defensive alliance, if Iran had attacked America we'd all be there, but as it was the other way around, we don't have too. I think this ill thought out attack hasn't gone according to what ever fairytale plans were made and now Trumps bored of it and wants out. But now he's disrupted everything, he wants others to come and pick up the pieces, how could any allies trust that as soon as they arrived, that Trump wouldn't just pack up his navy and take them all home and leave like they did in Afghanistan?

    I managed to get petrol at £1:35.9 today, other places are selling it at about £1:42,9 and some of the out of the way places at £1:50 a litre. Prof, I wonder how that would go down on your side of the pond?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    We have oil heating. The latest bill was painful.

    On the plus side the heating was broken for a week, so that saved some, just had the water and the Aga thankfully. 

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Yeah, it's really helped, especially as the warmth dries clothes too. We have an electric radiator for the office to save heating the whole house in the day, plus I am wrapped up in blankets as I hate cold knees which are a given for working on a PC all day! (And helps for the power cuts as it takes a while got it to cool down so can normally tide over till power gets restored.)

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    I haven't heard anything specific about help, I'm afraid sceptical till it appears, though I think last time they did something similar, I think the way it worked was credited to your oil account or something like that. Just hoping for mild whether so we don't have to use it too much.

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    Thank goodness for the Aga!

    Growing up, we had an Aga which kept the kitchen blissfully warm. I would love one but as I don’t do much cooking and I’m on my own it wouldn't be economical. 

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    They have allocated 17 million to N. Ireland which has about 500,000 households using oil. It’s not going to be enough to cover the extra costs as according to reports, prices of oils have doubled since the war. 

    I have gas so there is a price cap until June, but what about after that? 

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    The governments announced help for some people with the cost of heating oil. I know it will go to devolved governments to dish out so I guess each will have different criteria for who gets anything?

    Lots of people here have oil or LPG for cooking and heating or are all electric, which would be great if we didn't have so many power cuts, especially if you live out in the sticks.