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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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  • Petrol prices are continuing to rise and we have fuel protests. Tractors and other vehicles are blocking roads in Belfast and Derry/Londonderry.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    My state’s governor just suspended gasoline use tax for a month, but we still have our normal fuel tax in effect. It helps a bit, gas is apparently much cheaper around my area than in other parts of the country. I feel pretty fortunate.

    I can’t imagine how much worse it is over there. Fuel protests? That’s wild.

  • in reply to profdanger

    I paid £1:51.9 a litre yesterday for normal unleaded and that's the cheapest I could find, most are a few pence dearer. Deisil is about £1:89.9 a litre.

    I know what you mean ArchaeC, ordinary people in Iran and Lebanon are really suffering and it does seem a bit harsh to be complaining about our lot in comparisson, but the only way these maniacs on both sides will stop is if, we, the people, force them to with our protests.

    It looks like Britain will be the worst hit of all the major economies we rely so heavily on imported gas and oil. Now everyone expects the government to flick a switch and make it all alright again and they can't, I'm sure they'd like too. We have a former NATO leader saying we're woefully underprepared for conflict, but again thats something you can't just switch on, it takes a couple of years to build ships, fit them out and then have the people to sail them, we've had decades of underinvestment, not just in the military but everywhere.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Only my opinion but I think it would be a lot of work, new ground floors have a minimum of 150mm of insulation under them. The plasterboard has insulation on the back of it,

    They have a system in the loft that removes the stale air but reuses the heat, the windows have a higher U rating. 
    The engineers thoughts were that people are guided by the subsidies, his company fitted a heat source system for a customer, the customers often think a bit of extra loft insulation is all they need, the customer in question is now suing the manufacturer for the ’promises’ they made.

  • in reply to Roy

    Thats exactly what I thought the answer would be, is there any way you could insulate your home enough to make it worth while?

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Only my opinion but I think it would be a lot of work, new ground floors have a minimum of 150mm of insulation under them. The plasterboard has insulation on the back of it,

    They have a system in the loft that removes the stale air but reuses the heat, the windows have a higher U rating. 
    The engineers thoughts were that people are guided by the subsidies, his company fitted a heat source system for a customer, the customers often think a bit of extra loft insulation is all they need, the customer in question is now suing the manufacturer for the ’promises’ they made.